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See the new exhibiting highlighting favorite artifacts and their fascinating stories. On view through the end of the year. details>>
Have you ever wanted to see a small town Fair with soap box derby races, ice cream socials and rides? Visit our website for daily schedules of events. details>>
Enjoy free Friday night concerts featuring a variety of musical genres in Downtown Lee’s Summit. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and/or blankets for seating. This... details>>
This event is part of the annual Civil War on the Western Frontier activities in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas. At 6 p.m., Bill Wagnon of the Ritchie House in Topeka... 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 >>
