In today’s Academic Minute, Purchase College's Elise Lemire describes how freed slaves helped shape a town integral to both the American Revolution and U.S. literature. Lemire, a professor of literature and a member of the cinema studies and women's studies faculties, is author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Find out more about her here. (To download the audio file directly, please click here.)
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