Monday, November 3 2008 | RI Council for the Humanities

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Bondage, Abolition and Beyond: A History of Slavery and African American Life in Rhode Island

Time:

Sep 8 2008 - 8:30am - Dec 31 2008 - 4:30pm

Exhibits

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History High Jinks Book Club

Time:

Nov 3 2008 - 6:30pm - Nov 3 2008 - 8:30pm

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History High Jinks Book Club

Providence Public Library Announces Continuation of Popular History High Jinks Book Club at Central Library!

Are we doomed to repeat the past? Come find out! Join Providence Public Library’s latest popular book club continuing October – December with three new titles!

November 3: Special Event - MEET THE AUTHOR! Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone

To register & reserve your books, call or email leader Nancy Callanan: 401-787-4152; nancycallanan@cox.net.

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Meet Mary Pleasant

Time:

Nov 2 2008 - 11:00pm - Nov 3 2008 - 12:00pm

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Meet Mary Pleasant

Meet Mary Pleasant

WHERE: Broadcast on Rhode Island PBS

WHEN: 11:00 pm

Meet Mary Pleasant, the 19th-century African American woman born a slave who became an international abolitionist, a prosperous entrepreneur, and a civil-rights activist who helped alter modern-day civil rights law. Now called the “Mother of Civil Rights” in California, Pleasant--as activist and individual--was that and much more.