About this Event
5714 Bellona Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21212
Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore journalist and author Scott Shane recounts the life of abolitionist Thomas Smallwood (1801-1883), who bought his own freedom, helped hundreds of others escape slavery in Washington and Baltimore and named the underground railroad. Flee North also tells the story of the Baltimore slave trader Hope Slatter, who shipped hundreds of people south from the Inner Harbor, often separating them from their families forever.
Presented by Friends of the Govans Library. Light refreshments served. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
About the Author:
Scott Shane is a former reporter for the New York Times and Baltimore Sun. He is the author of Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone and Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union.