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In the United States, the end of enslavement was followed by familiar storylines: the rise of Jim Crow laws, the Great Migration of African Americans northward, and the start of the civil rights movement. Far less familiar, however, is the story of what the abolition movement meant for Africa - that place from whence America’s enslaved people came. In honor of Black History Month, this class explores the dramatic and fascinating story of how Africa experienced the end of the transatlantic slave trade. We’ll meet a host of characters - men and women, African, African American, and European - whose actions reshaped an entire continent in the decades after 1803, when the sale of enslaved people across the Atlantic was first outlawed. From Liberia, where freed slaves from Maryland once re-settled, to Togo, where Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute worked to recreate the cotton economy of the American South, this class introduces those lesser-known African and African American voices and developments that helped to define modern Africa. After this class, you’ll have a much deeper appreciation of the global context for one of the most important chapters in American history! See you there!
When: Feb 9, 2027 @ 7:00-9:00pm
Where: JeannieBird Baking Company, 42 W. Main St., Westminster, MD
Cost: $50 / person (inc. dessert and coffee/tea)
In the United States, the end of enslavement was followed by familiar storylines: the rise of Jim Crow laws, the Great Migration of African Americans northward, and the start of the civil rights movement. Far less familiar, however, is the story of what the abolition movement meant for Africa - that place from whence America’s enslaved people came. In honor of Black History Month, this class explores the dramatic and fascinating story of how Africa experienced the end of the transatlantic slave trade. We’ll meet a host of characters - men and women, African, African American, and European - whose actions reshaped an entire continent in the decades after 1803, when the sale of enslaved people across the Atlantic was first outlawed. From Liberia, where freed slaves from Maryland once re-settled, to Togo, where Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute worked to recreate the cotton economy of the American South, this class introduces those lesser-known African and African American voices and developments that helped to define modern Africa. After this class, you’ll have a much deeper appreciation of the global context for one of the most important chapters in American history! See you there!
When: Feb 9, 2027 @ 7:00-9:00pm
Where: JeannieBird Baking Company, 42 W. Main St., Westminster, MD
Cost: $50 / person (inc. dessert and coffee/tea)