In 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, Sarah Winslow Deming escaped British-occupied Boston and took temporary refuge in Jamaica Plain.  Lucinda, whom she enslaved, was with her.  Speakers Natalie Eldridge and Emily Curran of Hidden Jamaica Plain will share their research on Deming’s vivid account of their escape and on Lucinda’s life. This new research comes just as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard around the world.”

Sarah wrote a 12-page letter to her niece Sally Winslow (later known as Sarah Winslow Coverly) sometime in June 1775, two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord occurred on April 19. Her letter shares an unusual account of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War from the point of view of a 52-year-old woman and conveys a vivid sense of what was happening in Jamaica Plain. You can see more here https://www.jphs.org/colonial-era/one-womans-eyewitness-account-of-jp-in-1775

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. It will be in a hybrid format. You can either attend in person at the Connolly Branch of the BPL or via Zoom. Zoom attendees please use this link to register.: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B7mFtQaNTJaXp2vsP3DcMA