**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

Join Professor Carl Robert Keyes for a stunning exploration of "The Slavery Adverts 250 Project," which chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails and workhouses. The project aims to provide modern audiences with a sense of just how often colonists encountered these advertisements in their daily lives. The frequency of these newspaper advertisements suggests just how embedded slavery was in colonial and revolutionary American culture in everyday interactions beyond the printed page.

About Carl: Professor Carl Robert Keyes is the director of the Slavery Adverts 250 Project, a blog in which he posts daily advertisements from the 18th century along with an analysis, and one he often incorporates into his history classes at Assumption University.  He frequently collaborates with several historical institutions and community organizations, such as the Royall House and Slave Quarters and the Center for Reconciliation, as well as served as a peer reviewer of articles and books about slavery for academic journals and university presses. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library. Presented in collaboration with Libraries Working Towards Social Justice.