The FAU Libraries, Study of the Americas Initiative in the College of Arts & Letters and the student-led History Club for FAU invite you to this event featuring University of Maryland Early American history professor, Richard Bell.
This presentation is free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. on the 5th Floor of the S.E. Wimberly Library and be followed by short reception to meet the speaker and view the current Spirit of America exhibit. All guests must follow FAU parking procedures.
Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America. Their ordeal - an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still - shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americas from their families in order to fuel slavery's rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.
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