Barbara Krauthamer is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History at UMass Amherst

Tuesday, Nov 27, 7:00 pm

ESCAPING SLAVERY,

ENVISIONING FREEDOM

First Churches (note location change!)

129 Main St., Northampton, MAFREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Book signing to follow

A conversation with distinguished historians Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Barbara Krauthamer on how

enslaved and formerly enslaved African American women envisioned and experienced freedom.

www.umass.edu/history/feinberg-seriesforbeslibrary.org/community/all-hamptons-read

Contact: communications@history.umass.edu Erica Armstrong Dunbar is Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University

The 2018 Feinberg Series “Another World Is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present” is presented by the UMass Amherst History Department.

The 2018 All Hamptons Community Read Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar is presented by the public libraries in Easthampton, Florence, Northampton, Southampton and Westhampton.

We thank our numerous co-sponsors and partners. See reverse for details.

Photo: Elderly women in attendance at convention for former slaves, Washington, DC, 1916. Credit: Library of Congress

Feinberg Series Co-sponsors: Amherst College: Department of American Studies and De-partment of Anthropology and Sociology. Hampshire College: Ethics and the Com-mon Good and Hampshire College Art Gal-lery. Mount Holyoke College: Department of English. Smith College: Department of English, Department of History and Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program. UMass Amherst: Anthropology Depart-ment, Center for Research on Families, Civic Engagement and Service Learning, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Commonwealth Honors College, Commu-nications Department, English Depart-ment, Fine Arts Center (keynote), Institute for Social Science Research, James Baldwin Lecture established by Dr. Allen J. Davis ‘68 (keynote), Labor Center, Massachusetts Society of Professors, Office of Equity & Inclusion (keynote), Office of the Provost (keynote), Political Science Department, Public History Program, Slavic, East Euro-pean, and Eurasian Studies, Social Thought and Political Economy Program, Student Affairs and Campus Life (keynote), Stu-dent Government Association, Graduate School (keynote), Prison Abolition Collec-tive, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. Community Or-ganizations: All Hamptons Reads, Arise for Social Justice, Collaborative for Educational Services, David Ruggles Center, Great Falls Books Through Bars, Hampshire/Franklin Labor Council, Historians for Peace and Democracy, International Socialist Orga-nization Western Mass, Massachusetts Peace Action, Northampton Committee to Stop the Wars, Out Now, Pa’lante Restor-ative Justice, Pioneer Valley Democratic Socialists of America, Pioneer Valley Work-ers Center, Racial Justice Rising, Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, Springfield No One Leaves, Western Mass Jobs with Justice, Western Massachusetts Prison Ab-olition Network, and Western Mass Show-ing Up for Racial Justice.

All Hamptons Read Co-sponsors: Feinberg Fam-ily Distinguished Lecture Series, Amherst College English Department, Mt. Holy-oke College Africana Studies Depart-ment, Northampton Community Televi-sion, Northampton Film Festival, Florence Bank, Easthampton Savings Bank, Friends of Forbes, Easthampton Emily Williston Memorial Library Friends, Southampton Edwards Library Friends, Westhampton Library Friends, Historic Northampton, Da-vid Ruggles Center for History and Educa-tion, Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee