The East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection will host an in-person lecture program, “New York’s Antislavery Movement from 1693-1827,” on Thursday, June 30, at 5:30 PM. The program will be presented by Sarah L.H. Gronningsater, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
In this talk, Professor Sarah Gronningsater will discuss the deep origins of Anglo-American antislavery policy and beliefs, tracing abolitionist ideas from the late 1600s to the early 1800s.
Sarah Gronningsater is a historian of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States, with a particular interest in slavery, abolition, and gradual emancipation. She is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Arc of Abolition: The Children of Gradual Emancipation and the Origins of National Freedom.”
Admission is free. Advanced reservations are requested but not required. Register online via EventBrite.com.