Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston
Stories and Songs of Pre-Civil War Black Sailors
Monday, February 18, 2019, 1 pm
Middle County Library
101 Eastwood Blvd, Centereach, Long Island, NY 11720
Directions by Car:
Exit #62 North (Nicolls Road) off Long Island Expressway. Go North on Nicolls Road to Middle Country Road (Route 25). Take the exit ramp on your right for Smithtown (West). At the end of exit ramp, make left onto Route 25. Continue 6/10 mile to Eastwood Boulevard. Turn right at light (across from Burger King) and continue 4/10 mile to MCPL-Centereach on the left.
Directions by Train:
Take the Long Island Railroad to Ronkonkoma station; see schedule. Taxis are available at the LIRR station and the Centereach building is approximately 15 miles away.
In SHALLOW BROWN, Thessalonia falls hard for a free sailor, one of the many who smuggles pages of the radical Black self-defense manifesto, “David Walker’s Appeal”, from Boston up and down the eastern seaboard in 1829. She helps her serious father circulate the prohibited document. Two short years later, her suspicions about her dad are confirmed. He turns out to be a respected organizer in the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831.
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