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See the new exhibiting highlighting favorite artifacts and their fascinating stories. On view through the end of the year. details>>
Join us on the last Friday of the month for our Families and Food Trucks Story Time! Enjoy a story with the Kansas City Public Library – Westport Branch at 10:30AM, then stay... details>>
Join us for one of our popular Ghost Tours to hear about some of the unexplained sights and sounds experienced here, learn about the gruesome Civil War history and the... details>>
6/19/2017 6:30:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
Recaptured Africans (book discussion with author Sharla M. Fett)
In celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., history professor Sharla M. Fett examines the 19th-century march toward abolition. Before the Civil War, as the government worked to suppress the import of slaves (banned by Congress in 1808), the U.S. Navy seized about 2,000 captured Africans from illegal slave ships and took them to temporary camps in Key West and Charleston. Fett looks at the social world of those “recaptives.”...details >>
