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1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 419, Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 727-6306
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Lecture: Before Emancipation: Slavery and Freedom in the District of Columbia, 1790 - 1862

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Author, scholar, lecturer and historian of the African Diaspora C.R. Gibbs will present a lecture entitled “Before Emancipation: Slavery and Freedom in the District of Columbia, 1790 - 1862."

Contact Synina Jackson-Pugh at (202) 671-4399 or Bill Branch at (202) 671-1105 for more information.


 

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