To Free a Family

Thursday, Feb 23 7:00p to 9:00p

at Cambridge Center for Adult Education Brattle House: Blacksmith House, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA

Price: $10

Phone: 617-547-6789 x 1

Age Suitability: 18 and up

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"To Free a Family" tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next 17 years trying to recover her son and daughter. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family -- Susan and Peter Lesley -- who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans' sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Walker's remarkable persistence.

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Categories: Talks & Lectures, History

Creator: willmcmillan

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Blacksmith House, Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02239
617-547-6789, ext. 1

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