 | Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Join us to learn how this history broadens and complicates what we think we know about this era, about the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers', and of the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.. Register for the free talk here https://mainehistory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tQF1RTnbTUSo4Pbft7DK3Q#/registration
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