On February 15th 2024 James H. Johnston delivered his presentation Differing Perspectives on Slavery in Washington D.C. & Maryland to attendees at the Josiah Henson Museum and Park.
Slavery in the Washington area was different. It began the same – in the late 1600s – but it soon changed. By the time of the Civil War, Washington D.C. still had slaves, but they lived among a population of free African Americans. Author James H. Johnston will discuss this, and more perspectives on slavery that emerge from his two books, ‘The Recollections of Margaret Loughborough,’ about a daughter of the Old Dominion of Virginia, and ‘From Slave Ship to Harvard,’ which follows six generations of an African American family in Maryland.
