Imagining in Plain Sight But Out of Mind - Slavery in the Northeast and the Hamptons
April 4, 2021
By compiling a comprehensive public list of enslaved persons from the Colonial period to the last recorded enslaved person in East Hampton in 1830, the Plain Sight Project is reconnecting a forgotten history while taking a step to place these people and their stories back into our nation's founding narrative.
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The Radical Imagination
The Radical Imagination looks at radical alternatives of what the United States could be like, offering a safe space in which people can discuss what they imagine in order to transform the criminal justice system, economic system, political system, etc.; understanding that the same issues that...
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