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Series on slavery in Charlestown kicks off March 5th

February 24 program on the legacy of slavery

Historian Anne Bailey will speak on ‘Historical Memory and the Debate over Reparations’ Feb. 24

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Slavery was widespread in South County where Narragansett Indians and Africans gave their forced labor to create the wealth of South County's best known family names. Starting March 5, the Charlestown Historical Society will launch an educational series on slavery in South County. CLICK HERE for details.
Image credit: RI State Archives, "A Heritage discovered: Blacks in Rhode Island" (1976).

Noted historian and author Anne C. Bailey will deliver a keynote address on “Historical Memory and the Debate over Reparations” as part of the University of Rhode Island’s recognition of Black History Month. 

Bailey is a professor of history at SUNY Binghamton. Her most recent book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Cambridge University Press), chronicles the slave auction which occurred in 1859 Savannah, Georgia.

In addition to conducting exhaustive research on the Butler family, which owned the plantation where more than 400 men, women and children were sold into slavery, Bailey conducted interviews with the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people’s lives today.