Online presentation: Maine’s Economic Connections to Slavery

On Thursday, April 28, at 6 p.m., the Camden Town library will certainly hold Luke Gates-Milardo, Education And Learning and also Area Interaction Professional at Maine Maritime Gallery, for an on the internet discussion of “Maine’s Economic Links to Enslavement”. 

This talk is the last program in the collection’s “Maritime Month” collection. Gates-Milardo will certainly offer records and also artefacts fromMaine Maritime Gallery’s collection that clarify Maine’s duty in the Atlantic servant economic climate. Check out the “What’s Occurring” grown-up occasions schedule at librarycamden.org to register and also obtain a Zoom web link to participate in.

The talk stems from an exhibition collectively produced by the Maine Maritime Gallery and also Bowdoin University’s Africana Research Division, called “Cotton Community: Maine’s Economic Links to Enslavement.” The talk will certainly offer an aesthetic and also historic evaluation of the job. Gates-Milardo will certainly review the research study difficulties associated with discovering Maine’s payment to the trafficking of enslaved individuals, and also will certainly urge a discussion regarding why this and also various other under-acknowledged backgrounds issue for the globe today.

Luke Gates-Milardo styles and also supplies innovative, experiential knowing chances for museum-goers of every ages. He is especially thinking about making use of artefacts to stress traditionally under-represented tales and also viewpoints, sustaining pupils in reinterpreting their understanding of background via such essential lenses as environmentalism, social justice, and also the arts.

Cotton Community: Maines Economic Links to Enslavement will certainly continue to be on exhibition at Maine Maritime Gallery till May 8, 2022. Find out more regarding this exhibition by visiting mainemaritimemuseum.org.