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SUMMARY:‘Contradictory Place’: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell Massachusetts a Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the documentary film ‘Contradictory Place’: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell Massachusetts featuring Prof. Robert Forrant of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Public Historian Maritza Grooms. The film describes the extraordinary anti-slavery efforts taking place in the mid-19th century in Lowell. Forrant and Grooms visit the sites that still exist in downtown Lowell where abolitionist activity occurred and where freedom seekers operated businesses. \nThe forty-minute film was written by Robert Forrant and Maritza Grooms\, produced by former Lowell Telecommunications Executive Director Wendy Blom\, and edited by former Lowell Telecommunications News Director Caroline Gallagher. \nThe film screening at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center 246 Market Street is free and open to the public. It will take place on Saturday\, February 24 at 2pm\, with a Q&A discussion with the film creators following the screening. \nFree parking is available at the Hamilton Canal Innovation District parking garage at 350 Dutton St.\, Lowell. Parking in this garage (only) is available to National Park visitors at no cost provided they obtain a valid parking voucher at the LNHP Visitor Center.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/contradictory-place-cotton-mills-alongside-anti-slavery-efforts-in-lowell-massachusetts-a-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center\, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center\, 246 Market St\, Lowell\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Historical,Talks and Film
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