Talk and Book Signing
A Peaceful Patch of Earth: Blacks in Jamestown, Rhode Island, in a Time of Racial Turbulence in America, 1850–1920
By Peter Fay and Valerie J. Southern
Revealing 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.
To attend, please RSVP to the Senior Center at 401-423-9806 or email edonnelly@jamestownri.net
Refreshments will be served.
The book may be purchased at the event for $21. Also available online at the JHS Museum Store.
Location: Senior Center (Golf Clubhouse 2nd floor) 245 Conanicus Avenue
