Lecture: African American Responses to the American Revolution in Rhode Island
September 12 @ 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Keith Stokes, Rhode Island Historian Laureate
How did the enslaved feel about the phrase “All Men Are Created Equal”? Come join Rhode Island’s Historian Laureate for a talk about the African American response to the onset of the Revolution, the oral history, and the cultures that kept this “unwritten” history alive, despite the upheavals and deliberate attempts at erasure.
Free for members. $10 for non-members.
