Events
5/5/2021 - Virtual Talk from the Museum of the American Revolution presented by Cumberland County Library
“THE SAME PRINCIPLE LIVES IN US: PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”
Thursday, June 3rd 2021 at 6pm
via Zoom
From the outbreak of the American Revolution, people of African descent struggled with the question of whether the phrase “all men are created equal” truly applied to all people. In this virtual Zoom presentation, hear the stories and explore the objects that the Museum of the American Revolution uses to help imagine what the Revolution was like for Phillis Wheatley, Elizabeth Freeman, James Forten, Harry Washington and others.
Registration is required for this event. To sign up, please send an email to: reference@cclnj.org, or call the library at 856-453-2210, ext. 4.