Sunday, November 8, 2020, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Explore the global experiences that created the African American people. See the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on these shores, and trace the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South.

See how Black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free Black people, it was a time of opportunity, but for most African Americans, the era represented a new nadir. Yet as slavery intensified, so did resistance.