Event: VOICES OF FREEDOM: POETS OF THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
Organizer: SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
Speakers: Kim Roberts
Tickets: $25 (concessions may apply)
Date: Jul 21st 7:00pm Pacific Time (USA). Equivalent times:
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"After 1808, when the importation of enslaved people into the United States was outlawed, human trading did not end, it simply changed focus. As wheat began to replace cotton as the Mid-Atlantic region’s principal crop, fewer workers were needed on the plantations of Maryland and Virginia, and owners sold off enslaved people they considered “excess” to the Southern states, where a cotton boom created a strong market for them...
Join poet and author Kim Roberts as she traces the abolitionist history of the region using the poetry of white women journalists, such as Grace Greenwood and Gail Hamilton; Black and white religious leaders including John Pierpont, John Sella Martin, and Henry McNeal Turner; and activists such as Charlotte Forten Grimké, Fanny Jackson Coppin, and Frederick Douglass..."
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