March 13: Scott Shane
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
Please be part of Church of the Redeemer for our subsequent VOICES speaker, Scott Shane, on March 13.
Baltimore resident Scott Shane was a reporter for 15 years at The New York Times, the place he was twice a member of groups that gained Pulitzer Prizes, and earlier than that for 21 years at The Baltimore Sun. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and author Thomas Smallwood, who purchased his personal freedom, led a whole lot out of slavery, and named the underground railroad.
Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all however misplaced to historical past. Flee North additionally portrays the harmful enemies confronted by Smallwood, and his allies, together with Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, who ran his slave-buying and selling enterprise from the Inner Harbor.
VOICES, the Redeemer Speaker Series invitations modern voices to problem and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change brave sufficient to carry the loveliness and sorrow of the world directly and discover the surprise in each.
