We Want More History DayBridge Street Cemetery Tour and Slavery & Freedom in Northampton Gallery Talk
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As part of We Want More History Day, Historic Northampton will be offering two tours on Saturday, September 26.
Bridge Street Cemetery Tour
Bridge Street Cemetery | 10:00
Registration required, exact location in confirmation email
Limited to 25
with Emma Winter Zeig, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, former Museum Educator at Historic Northampton
Get to know your historical neighbors in a walking tour of Bridge Street Cemetery. We will “meet” some Northampton residents – from students to soldiers to enslaved people. We will get to know many of them through their words, in letters, poems, and diaries that are archived in the Historic Northampton collection. Along the way, we will also examine changing artisanry and symbolism of gravestone design.
Gallery Talk: Slavery and Freedom in Northampton, 1654-1783
Historic Northampton | 12:30
No registration required
with Emma Bresnan, Museum Educator & Program coordinator
Join us for a closer look at some of the stories highlighted in our current exhibit, Slavery and Freedom in Northampton, 1654 to 1783.
The 45-minute talk will reveal more about the lives of enslaved individuals, their choices about family and freedom, the legal arrangements that kept slavery in place, and how enslaved labor fueled the Northampton and regional economy.