Stories of Enslavement: Insistence on Being & Becoming

Please join us for Stories of Enslavement: Insistence on Being and Becoming, a remembrance of six enslaved African Americans: Zebulon Prutt, Sezor Phelps, Margaret (Peg) Bowen, and her daughters and granddaughters Roseanna, Phillis, and Phillis. The event is stewarded by Onawumi Jean Moss and Anika Lopes, and features freedom songs with Orice Jenkins, dramatic readings by Frank Roberts and Olivia Haynes, and a communal reading of Frederick Douglass’s influential address "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". This commemorative storytelling event and concert is a Reading Frederick Douglass Together Mass Humanities program, held July 30 at 6:00 pm in the Sunken Garden at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive, Route 47, Hadley MA 01035. Admission for this event is free. Picnickers are welcome on the museum’s grounds starting at 5:00 pm. The museum and its grounds are a smoke-free site. For further information please call (413) 584-4699 or view www.pphmuseum.org.