# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lecture with Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us on Wednesday June 24th in the Friend’s Room of the Newport Public library for the first lecture in our summer series! Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern will be discussing their new book “A Peaceful Patch of Earth: Blacks in Jamestown, Rhode Island, in a Time of Racial Turbulence in America, 1850-1920.” 

Revealing the untold history of a thriving Black community in rural Rhode Island, A Peaceful Patch of Earth challenges the conventional narrative of an all-white New England before the Great Migration. On Jamestown Island, this community took root in the nineteenth century and flourished despite national racial turbulence.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/newport/lecture-with-peter-fay-and-valerie-j-southern/200030214420712
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Newport
- **state**: RI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Newport Public Library (Rhode Island)
- **lat**: 41.48243
- **long**: -71.31234
- **full address**: Newport Public Library (Rhode Island), 300 Spring St,Newport, Rhode Island, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Lecture with Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern being held?
  - **A:** Lecture with Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern takes place on Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Newport Public Library (Rhode Island), 300 Spring St,Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Lecture with Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern?
  - **A:** Lecture with Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern is organized by Newport Middle Passage Project.

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