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SUMMARY:Prince George's County Reads: "A Question of Freedom" 
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DESCRIPTION:Prince George's County Reads invites community members to shar
 e the experience of reading a book together. The inaugural selection\, "A 
 Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's
  Founding to the Civil War" by William G. Thomas III\, explores the histor
 y of enslaved Black residents of the County who challenged slavery in the 
 courts from the late-18th century..\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/5880
 597
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 r/pgcmls/County_Read_2021_Rectangular.png" width="750" height="423" alt=""
  style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\
 n<p>A limited number of complimentary copies of "A Question of Freedom" ar
 e available at PGCMLS branch libraries (while supplies last). The book is 
 also available for <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/default.as
 px?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">borrowing through the 
 Library</a> and for purchase through <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/a
 -question-of-freedom-the-families-who-challenged-slavery-from-the-nation-s
 -founding-to-the-civil-war/9780300234121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">M
 ahogany Books</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Book Discussions</strong></
 p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 2\, 2021: Prologue &amp\; Chapter 1 ("A Meeting at 
 White Marsh") - Facilitated by Nicholas Brown (COO for Communication and O
 utreach\, PGCMLS) and Kyla Hanington (Public Outreach and Engagement Divis
 ion Manager\, Prince George's County Office of Human Rights)</li>\n<li>Dec
 ember 7\, 2021: Chapter 2 ("Ought to Be Free") - Facilitated by Nicholas B
 rown (COO for Communication and Outreach\, PGCMLS) and Kyla Hanington (Pub
 lic Outreach and Engagement Division Manager\, Prince George's County Offi
 ce of Human Rights)</li>\n<li>January 4\, 2022: Chapter 3 ("Charles Mahone
 y is a Free Man") - Facilitated by Katherine Brodt (Assistant Curator/Muse
 um History\, Marietta House Museum\, M-NCPPC)</li>\n<li>February 8\, 2022:
  Chapter 4 ("A Public Scandal")</li>\n<li>March 8\, 2022: Chapter 5 ("Quee
 n v. Hepburn--A Question of Freedom") - Facilitated by Julia Rose (Histori
 c House Manager\, Marietta House Museum\, M-NCPPC)</li>\n<li>April 5\, 202
 2: Chapter 6 ("The Turning")</li>\n<li>May 3\, 2022: Chapter 7 ("Mob Law")
 </li>\n<li>June 7\, 2022: Chapters 8-9 ("The Sale" and "The Last Freedom T
 rial")</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Prince George's County Reads book discussion events
  will be held monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm ET through 
 June 2022. The November and December 2021 events will be virtual. 2022 eve
 nt locations and formats will be announced in December.</p>\n<p><strong>Ab
 out "A Question of Freedom"</strong></p>\n<p>For over seventy years and fi
 ve generations\, the enslaved families of Prince George&rsquo\;s County\, 
 Maryland\, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful ci
 rcle of slaveholders\, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court
 . Between 1787 and 1861\, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slav
 ery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation&rsquo\;s capita
 l.</p>\n<p>Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in
  the archives\, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human stor
 y of the enslaved families (the Butlers\, Queens\, Mahoneys\, and others)\
 , their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key)\, and the slavehold
 ers who fought to defend slavery\, beginning with the Jesuit priests who h
 eld some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at
  Georgetown.&nbsp\;A Question of Freedom&nbsp\;asks us to reckon with the 
 moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.</p>\n<p><str
 ong>William G. Thomas III&nbsp\;</strong>is the John and Catherine Angle C
 hair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Nebra
 ska. He is co-founder and was director of the Virginia Center for Digital 
 History at the University of Virginia.</p>\n<p><strong>Prince George's Cou
 nty Reads 2022 is part of Freedom Stories</strong></p>\n<p><a href="https:
 //www.joesmovement.org/freedom-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fre
 edom&nbsp\;Stories</a>&nbsp\;will&nbsp\;discover the histories\, stories\,
  names\, and places where freedom from enslavement&nbsp\;and oppression be
 gan in Prince George&rsquo\;s County.&nbsp\;Through dialogue facilitated b
 y programs\,&nbsp\;Freedom&nbsp\;Stories&nbsp\;will strive to connect lega
 cy to present day&nbsp\;Prince George&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;families&nbsp\;and&nb
 sp\;provide insight into the determination and resilience of Blacks living
  in Prince George&rsquo\;s County&nbsp\;in&nbsp\;the 1700&rsquo\;s. We exp
 lore history to create a more just and equitable present experience.&nbsp\
 ;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Programs produced in partnership between:</p>\n<p>Prince 
 George&rsquo\;s County Memorial Library System<br />Prince George's County
  Office of Human Rights<br />Joe&rsquo\;s Movement Emporium<br />Prince Ge
 orge&rsquo\;s Community College Center for Performing Arts<br />Prince Geo
 rge&rsquo\;s County Historical Society</p>\n<p>&ldquo\;Many Americans see 
 enslaved people in history as a faceless and nameless\, victims of a long-
 ago system that has now disappeared.&nbsp\; The nation needs to experience
 &hellip\;: a confrontation\, a reckoning\, with real people\, with real hi
 stories\, with real families whose descendants live among us.&nbsp\; Until
  such encounters happen more widely\, Americans will continue to live in s
 eparate historical spheres of understanding&rdquo\;.&nbsp\; &ndash\; Willi
 am G. Thomas III\, "A Question of Freedom"&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><a href="https:/
 /www.youtube.com/watch?v=_htqrXfMFKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch
  William G. Thomas III's discussion of "A Question of Freedom" with PGCMLS
  from December 2020</a></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/588
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