Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Professor, Scholar, & Author of Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:00pm 46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill Lecture, Q&A, book signing and reception Admission fees apply Museum Admission GENERAL ADMISSION: $5.00 MAAH MEMBERS - Free 12 yrs & under - Free 13 - 17 yrs - $3.00 Seniors 62+ - $3.00 Employing the tools of archaeology, LaRoches study provides a powerful new window into the Underground Railroad and significantly enriches our understanding of it... - Author Keith Griffler Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoches highly anticipated new book, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance (University of Illinois Press, 2014), is rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, and tells the powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression. Dr. LaRoche, a lecturer in American studies at the University of Maryland, reveals a new historical perspective on pathways to freedom from enslavement. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have concentrated on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, this enlightening study focuses instead on free African American communities and the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. One such free community located on the north slope of Bostons Beacon Hill is considered the nexus of the abolitionist movement and the go-to destination for self-emancipated peoples traveling with Harriet Tubman and others on the road to freedom. To be recorded by WGBH Forum Network. 
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:29:50 +0000
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