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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:A Peaceful Patch of Earth: Blacks in Jamestown, Rhode Island, in a Time of Racial Turbulence in America, 1850–1920\nBy Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern\nRevealing the untold history of a thriving Black community in rural Rhode Island, A Peaceful Patch of Earth challenges the conventional narrative of an all-white New England before the Great Migration. On Jamestown Island, this community took root in the nineteenth century and flourished despite national racial turbulence.\nTo attend, please RSVP to the Senior Center at 401-423-9806 or email edonnelly@jamestownri.net ( mailto:edonnelly@jamestownri.net )\nRefreshments will be served.\nThe book may be purchased at the event for $21. Also available online at the JHS Museum Store.\nLocation: Senior Center (Golf Clubhouse 2nd floor) 245 Conanicus Avenue\n
URL:https://jamestownhistoricalsociety.org/events/talk-and-book-signing/
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LOCATION:245 Conanicus Ave, Jamestown, RI 02835
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