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Cape Cod and the Slave Trade, with Dr. Meadow Dibble of the Atlantic Black Box
February 27, 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
On August 1, 1819, a majestic Maine-built ship docked at Boston’s Long Wharf, completing a nearly year-long voyage to West Africa and the West Indies that only a few crew members survived. This dramatic story features a prominent Yankee sea captain, a tragedy on the high seas, a viral outbreak, a major political cover up, and a conspiracy of silence that has lasted two centuries surrounding New England’s involvement in the slave trade. Following these historical threads to the present allows us to consider our current national conversations about race, privilege, identity and access to the “American dream.”
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