December 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
A screening and discussion with film collaborator Professor Robert Forrant
From the 1830s through the Civil War, many Lowellians from all walks of life engaged in concerted efforts to block the expansion of slavery and helped freedom seekers even when this meant defying federal law. “A Contradictory Place” offers viewers a way to learn about an important, but too often neglected, chapter of our history. The forty-minute film was written by Robert Forrant and Maritza Grooms, produced by former Lowell Telecommunications Executive Director Wendy Blom, and edited by former Lowell Telecommunications News Director Caroline Gallagher.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE.
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- Robert Forrant is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Lawrence History Center board member. He has been the principal historian on numerous projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lowell National Historical Park, and Mass Humanities. In 2018 he was the Humanities Scholar in Residence funded by the Massachusetts Endowment for the Humanities to work with the Hatfield, MA Historical Museum. Utilizing newly discovered archives he produced a scholarly article and helped to produce an exhibit on the Porter McLeod Machine Company, a small machine shop that exported the lathes it built around the world. His new book, Interpreting Labor and Working-Class History at Museums and Historic Sites, with Mary Anne Trasciatti, will be published by the University of Illinois Press in June 2022 in its Working-Class in American History series.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org