06/07/2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Alna 1789 Meetinghouse
1789 Alna Road
Alna
Event Type
Author Carol Gardner will discuss her narrative history, The Divided North: Black & White Families in the Age of Slavery from 4:00-5:30 pm on Saturday, June 7 at the Historic 1789 Alna Meetinghouse, 1789 Alna Road. The Divided North follows two Maine families throughout the turbulent 19th century. The Rubys and Gordons were neighbors in Portland, Maine. Yet they were worlds apart, separated by family culture and race: the Rubys were Black and the Gordons were White. Their experiences as antislavery activists, operatives on the Underground Railroad, shipmasters, and slave captains offer a surprising portrait of life in the “Free North” when slavery enthralled the nation. The talk is sponsored by the Fund to Support Historic Alna: http://www.historicalna.org.
