In honor of Juneteenth, join us to read and discuss selections from Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition, a collection of narratives, writings, and poems written by enslaved and formerly enslaved Americans. The group will meet twice over Zoom to discuss different selections from the book in depth. Copies of the book may be found on the Reading Group shelves on the second floor of the library.

For the Thurs June 9 meeting, please read the excerpt from Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life (p.248); the excerpt from Jacob Stroyer’s My Life in the South (p.336); and the excerpt from Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Nat Turner’s Insurrection (p.34).

For the Thurs June 23 meeting please read the Lost Friends Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate (p.610); the excerpt from Congressman Richard Harvey Cain’s speech “All We Ask is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, Equal Rights” (p.594); the Selections from the Anglo-African Magazine (p.161); and Henry McNeal Turner’s speech “I Claim the Rights of a Man” (p.584).

Registration is required and can be done online.