SSS-04 Northern Complicity in Slavery - UCONN Adult Learning Program

CANCELED- SSS-05 What can Westerners learn from Buddhism
Replaced with the new course below:

Friday April 4th @ 1-3pm with Bert Sirkin
Inside the Ordinary: The Extraordinary World of Macro Photography
This engaging presentation unveils the hidden beauty in everyday objects through the lens of macro photography. It introduces you to the art of extreme close-up imaging, revealing intricate details often invisible to the naked eye. The presentation showcases a diverse array of stunning macro images, demonstrating how this technique transforms common items into mesmerizing landscapes of texture, color, and form. Viewers will gain insight into the concept of "a world within a world" and learn how you can take macro images with a basic smartphone. This visual exploration encourages a newfound appreciation for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Event:

SSS-04 Northern Complicity in Slavery

Dates:

4/4

Time:

10:00 to 12:00

Category:

Spring2025-SingleSession

Location:

Seabury Chapel

Presenter:

Jennifer Frank, Editor, writer

If you blame the South for slavery and the Civil War, you know only half the story. In this course, you’ll learn the other half. The North's profit from slavery has mostly been a shameful and well kept secret This course reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It discloses the reality of the Northern empires built on tainted profits--run, in some cases, by abolitionists--and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut.