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The 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project: A Reparative Search for Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans
September 23 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Chattanooga Friends Meeting and the University of Tennessee, Chatanooga will host a hybrid program entitled “The 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project: A Reparative Search for Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans.” To repair is to fix what was broken. The history of Quakers as slaveowners contains much damage and breakage. This project seeks to restore families histories of those descended from people enslaved by Quakers and answer the question: What happened to these newly freed Americans and how did they survive? Speakers: Avis Wanda McClinton, community liaison for the 339 Project and David Satten-Lopez, who led the Haverford College website “Manumitted: The People Enslaved by Quakers.”
