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Lapidus Center Presents: Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War Share

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field, Assistant Professor of History at Tufts, chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements.











When: Tue., Feb. 27, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Where: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
212-491-2200
Price: Free
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Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field, Assistant Professor of History at Tufts, chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements.

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