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Lunch With Books: Slave Stories of Wheeling

February 09, 2016
12:00pm - 12:00pm

Lunch With Books: Slave Stories of Wheeling


Wheeling market on 10th Street. Slaves were sold near this end.From the city’s foundation to the Civil War, slaves walked the streets of Wheeling. There was a slave auction block on 10th Street, and the Underground Railroad was active locally. To begin Black History Month, historian Margaret Brennan will share vignettes, discovered over many years of research, about the enslaved in Wheeling. 

Wheeling’s Pitts sisters will provide musical interludes.

 


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