Slavery in Savannah focus of lecture at Hammond House
The Hammonds House Museum, in conjunction with WRFG 89.3 FM and the Auburn Avenue Research Library, will host a program at 3 p.m. Saturday about slavery in Savannah.
Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson will lecture on “The 1859 Savannah Slave Auction: A Genealogy of People and Place.” Emory University’s Leslie Harris will moderate the discussion.
The lecture is part of “Unearthing the Weeping Time,” a public programming series that looks at what it calls “the darkest moments in Georgia’s antebellum history and the lasting imprint of the largest recorded slave auction in U.S History, while honoring and reviving the stories of the people sold.”
All programs are free and open to the public.
Information: www.mawamuseum.org/weepingtime.html
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
