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Black History Month Lecture: Freedom’s Blood Memories

Feb 19, 2020 - Feb 19, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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Sowande Mustakeem, Ph.D., author of “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” will present the lecture “Freedom’s Blood Memories: Slavery, Terror and the Evolution of Black History.” Mustakeem is associate professor of History and African American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis.

Admission to the sixth annual Black History Month lecture at the Heinz History Center is free but does not include access to museum exhibitions. Please register in advance at www.heinzhistorycenter.org/events.