Join the John Brown House Museum, a Rhode Island Historical Society Museum, on Thursday, November 6, at 5:30pm for Black Joy in Revolutionary Providence, a presentation by Tara A. Bynum.
Drawing from her book Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America, as well as additional research she has conducted at the RIHS’s Robinson Research Center, Dr. Bynum will explore the internal lives of Black residents in Providence and the United States more broadly as described in letters, pamphlets, and other primary documents. Bynum will examine the pockets of joy found by early Black Americans despite enslavement, including Eve Brown, a woman enslaved to John Brown’s cousin, Mary Brown.
Tara A. Bynum is an Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at University of Iowa. She is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships: including, the John Carter Brown Library, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, American Antiquarian Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Tickets are $5 for RIHS Members and $10 for General Admission. Registration is required. Tickets are available here.