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SUMMARY:Carol Gardner\, author\, The Divided North Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery
DESCRIPTION:Old Bristol Historical Society (OBHS) and Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) present speaker Carol Gardner online on February 6\, 2025 at 5:30 pm. This online lecture is free and open to the public\, with pre-registration required. \nClick here to register \nDr. Carol Gardner will discuss her book\, The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery\, a narrative history that follows two northern families throughout the turbulent 19th century. Born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799\, Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon were neighbors and schoolmates in Portland\, Maine. Yet they were worlds apart\, separated by temperament\, family culture and race: Reuben was Black and Nathaniel was white. \nThe Rubys became prominent antislavery activists and operatives on the Underground Railroad. The Gordons became well-to-do ship masters: among them\, the most notorious American slave captain of the century: Nathaniel Gordon III. Absent from history books for over a century\, these two families offer a detailed portrait of life in the so-called “Free North” when slavery enthralled the nation. Their lives—as activists\, traders\, agents on the Underground Railroad\, soldiers\, slave captains\, blockade runners\, prospectors and politicians—took them far from home: to New York\, California\, Texas\, Louisiana\, Africa\, Cuba\, Colombia and Brazil. But they returned to Maine again and again. \nAs families and individuals\, the Rubys and Gordons help us to explore slavery and freedom\, racism and equality in America. They help reveal what it meant to live in a free state\, with all the promise\, disappointment\, irony and hope that the notion entailed. \n  \nCarol Gardner has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer and journalist. She earned a Ph.D. in English from The Johns Hopkins University\, taught literature and writing at Johns Hopkins\, Wake Forest\, and Florida State Universities\, and has published pieces in a wide variety of books and periodicals\, including the Portland Press Herald and The Washington Post. She is a past winner of a Maryland Individual Artist’s Award. Dr. Gardner is the author of a narrative history\, The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World\, and the forthcoming The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery. She lives in Alna\, Maine. \n  \nClick here to register \n 
URL:https://www.lincolncountyhistory.org/event/carol-gardner/
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SUMMARY:The "Help" from Hampton: In Service at the Pownalborough Court House 1872-1892
DESCRIPTION:LCHA is proud to present: \nThe “Help” from Hampton: In service at the Pownalborough Court House 1872-1892\nThursday\, February 27\, 5:30 pm\, free online with speaker James Tanzer\,\nFree Online Lecture\, preregistration required\, CLICK HERE to register \nA $5 suggested donation helps LCHA cover costs with our free lecture series. All donations are gratefully appreciated\, but no donations are required! Click here to donate online. \nFor 20 years\, from 1872-1892\, an aging Sallie and Captain Sam Goodwin\, owners of the Pownalborough Court House in Dresden\, Maine\, relied heavily on the housekeeping and farm labor of four young Black workers from Hampton\, Virginia: Katy Brown\, Randall O. Johnson\, Martha Jones\, and her brother Joseph Henry Jones. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first time\, through an examination of letters between the extended Goodwin\, Canby\, Johnson\, and Marshall family members\, and letters written by Katy\, Randall\, Martha\, and Joseph Henry themselves\, we are able to piece together the fascinating stories of these young Black people\, and illuminate their lives both in Maine and in Virginia during the Reconstruction era and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Tanzer is the Special Collections Research Services Librarian at Bowdoin College\, and the Vice President of Lincoln County Historical Association. He holds a BA in history and an MA in medieval history. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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