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Join us for a talk with David Mills, winner of the North American Book Award for his work on northern slavery and Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
He'll discuss his collection of poems, Unhired Hands, about slavery in Queens and Massachusetts, where the first Africans and Native Americans were enslaved. He'll read from his work and discuss his research, including the leitmotif around slavery and the North.
Free and open to all! No registration required.
BIO
David Mills is the author of the award-winning collection Boneyarn, the only book of poems about slavery in Manhattan, where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located. He has followed this with Unhired Hands, collection funded by the American Antiquarian Society and Queens Council on the Arts.