Liberating the Archive

tue18feb6:30 pmtue7:30 pmLiberating the ArchiveStories of Enslavement + Incarceration6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Event Details

In collaboration with the 339 Manumissions Project and the Graterford Archive at Haverford College, Stenton wraps our Black History Month series in the archive. Through this program, we will map the intertwined histories of enslavement and mass incarceration in Philadelphia and Quakers' involvement in it.  In sharing historical documents and oral histories, we highlight the humanity of a people, not data and talking points.
Event will be FREE and on ZOOM. Registration info will be available soon.

Time

February 18, 2025 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Organizer

Stenton

Stenton is one of the earliest, best-preserved, and most authentic historic houses in Philadelphia. Completed in 1730 as a country-seat, plantation house for James Logan - Secretary to William Penn; merchant, politician, justice, scientist, and scholar – Stenton was home to six generations of the Logan family, as well as a diverse community of servants and enslaved Africans, including Dinah, who lived and worked at Stenton for over 60 years. Furnished with 18th- and 19th-century Logan family objects, and remaining in little-altered condition, a visit to Stenton offers an unparalleled experience of early Pennsylvania.

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