Join independent scholar, David Mulholland, in his talk Handed Down from the Trade, Wednesday, February 18, 7:00 PM, in the library’s meeting room.
Imagine growing up in an America grasping with the horrors and social havoc of its slavery past that you personally despise. Then imagine discovering that your ancestors participated extensively in slavery, prospered from it, and influenced public policy to set people, states, and a nation on a path to spread slavery, to engage in a Civil War, and to undertake an arduous Civil Rights struggle.
This PowerPoint presentation and discussion explores this dilemma in the life of a modern American researcher, author, and supporter of Civil Rights whose direct and extended family owned some of the most famous and prosperous Southern plantations – Nanjemoy, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and Bellemeade. In this presenter’s life, American slave history is not an academic course or fodder for abstract discussion, but a genetic and family reality. It’s one thing to discover who your ancestors are and another to discover what they did that conflicts with your values and the good that they otherwise accomplished.
David Mulholland is Present Founder & President, Acadaide, LLC and Community Neuro-Rehabilitation, Inc. AcadAide serves persons of all ages who are living with cognitive and developmental challenges. Community Neuro-Rehabilitation works with wounded veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Location Brooks Memorial Library Meeting Room, 2nd Floor. For more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 802-254-5290 ext 0, by email at info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org. Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. The event is free and open to the public.
