Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EASTERN
Location: ONLINE (link available on our website closer to the event)
Participants:
Dr Hannah-Rose Murray, University of Suffolk
Dr Caroline Dunham-Schroeter, President of The Globe Lane Initiative/#DouglassWeek team
Kristin Leary, Vice President of The Globe Lane Initiative/#DouglassWeek team
Description: Moses Roper was an abolitionist, social justice activist, freedom fighter, husband, father and a survivor of U.S. enslavement. Born in 1815 in North Carolina, he liberated himself after at least twenty attempts to find freedom, and briefly settled in New York and Boston in 1834. Faced with the threat of re-enslavement and assassination, he moved to England and travelled for several years around Britain and Ireland to lecture against enslavement and racism. His bold and fierce denunciations of white supremacy, oppression and even white abolitionists who threatened to damage his reputation are courageous examples of how Black freedom fighters were forced to fight daily battles to survive. This talk, led by Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray, will focus on Roper's life, his experiences in Britain, his life after the U.S. Civil War which is rarely documented, his tragic death in Boston and how and why he has been forgotten. The talk will also raise awareness of Roper's burial, an act of injustice which so far remains uncorrected, and The Globe Lane Initiative's desire to memorialize his life in the place where he now rests.