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DESCRIPTION:Lunch & Learn: FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for F
 reedom in Slavery's Borderland\n\nProgram registration is recommended but 
 not required.\n\nJoin Scott Shane\, the author of FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten 
 Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland\, to hear the aston
 ishing story of Thomas Smallwood\, born into slavery near Washington\, who
  bought his freedom\, became a shoemaker and began organizing mass escapes
  from slavery from Washington\, Baltimore and the surrounding counties. Wi
 th the help of a younger white abolitionist\, Charles Torrey\, Smallwood t
 ook wagonloads of men\, women and children into Pennsylvania\, urging them
  not to stop until they reached Canada. And Smallwood wrote about the esca
 pes in satirical newspaper dispatches\, an extraordinary work of journalis
 m and literature in which he gave the underground railroad its name. Many 
 of those Smallwood helped to flee north approached him after learning that
  they were about to be sold south by domestic slave traders like Hope Slat
 ter\, who operated his private "slave jail" near Baltimore's harbor.\n\n\n
 FLEE NORTH was named one of the best 10 books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly
  ("This astonishing and propulsive narrative rights a historical wrong by 
 returning [Thomas] Smallwood to prominence. It’s an absolute must-read
 ”) and one of top 20 by Amazon (“Scott Shane’s narrative account is 
 visceral\, a stunning feat of historical storytelling as you’re transpor
 ted into the terrifying life of an enslaved person in 1800s Baltimore"). H
 enry Louis Gates Jr. called it "riveting" and Taylor Branch called it "a t
 reasure."\n\n \n\nScott Shane was a reporter for 15 years at The New York 
 Times\, where he was twice a member of teams that won Pulitzer Prizes\, an
 d before that for 21 years at The Baltimore Sun. His two previous books ar
 e Dismantling Utopia\, a firsthand account of the collapse of the Soviet U
 nion\, and Objective Troy\, the story of an American terrorist killed in a
  drone strike on orders of President Obama. In 2019-2020 he was a fellow a
 t the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University\, where he has taugh
 t courses on media and on the Russian attack on the 2016 American presiden
 tial election.\n\n \n\nASL interpretation will be available for attendees.
 \n\n \n\nPresented in partnership with The Maryland State Archives and The
  Maryland Four Centuries Project.
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freed
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CATEGORIES:Maryland Interest
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