Hidden Fortress: Fugitives, Marronage, and Black Resistance on the Savannah River

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Join us for an evening with an amazing panel of experts:  Dr. Sylviane Diouf, the country’s leading scholar on the African diaspora and marronage; Dr. Paul Pressly, whose expertise spans colonial Georgia and the Lowcountry’s Gullah-Geechee cultural and environmental legacies; Richard Kanaski, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Regional Archaeologist and Historical Preservation Officer; and best-selling novelist George Dawes Green, a son of coastal Georgia, whose latest creative work has brought Savannah’s history to life.

“If history is made up of crime stories, then why not a crime story to help rethink history?”, so says the New York Times in its glowing review of George Dawes Green’s new novel, Kingdoms of Savannah. But little known, even in this city full of stories and storytellers, is an important American chapter of Black history on the Savannah River that served as the seed for Green’s latest book.

The Learning Center, in partnership with The Book Lady Bookstore, is bringing together an incredible group of historians and preservationists, along with Moth founder George Dawes Green, to explore the fas