Virginia History participants in the Washington area might want to know about an author event at the Politics and Prose book store at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW from 1 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 16 (which unluckily coincides with the Virginia Forum at Longwood).
The book comes out the previous day. (Though you won't catch me lobbing any corny Beware the Ides of March cliché gags. No sirreee.) Because it obviously relates to the Fort Monroe work I'm doing, I've been in contact with the author, have already learned a lot from her, and have ordered a copy.
The event blurb appears below.
Steve Corneliussenhttp://fortmonroenationalpark.org/
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Christina Proenza-Coles
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
Saturday, March 16, 2019, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20008(202) 364-1919
Conventional histories of North America focus almost exclusively on white Europeans, giving few African figures leading roles in the story until the Civil War era. As Proenza-Coles shows in her groundbreaking and revelatory account, African-descended people played key parts in every stage of the nation’s evolution. In fact, African residents preceded the English to North America by a century and outnumbered European migrants there until roughly 1820. Drawing on hundreds of sources, Proenza-Coles, who holds a dual doctorate in sociology and history from the New School, introduces a huge cast of previously unknown Black explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, and more, and shows how this overlooked population left an indelible stamp on the nation we have become.
This event is free to attend, with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
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