Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she was a white woman from new york, moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
The excommunication given so many centuries before. So let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. E eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. Two of them are especially relevant to our period. One is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. And it tells the true story of eves ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, Ann Hutchinson. The one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. A critic noted recently or i dont know when it was that laplank sees Ann Hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. So please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. And thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. Before i start i wanted to think for a moment where we
Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she was a white woman from new york, moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
The excommunication given so many centuries before. So let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. E eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. Two of them are especially relevant to our period. One is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. And it tells the true story of eves ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, Ann Hutchinson. The one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. A critic noted recently or i dont know when it was that laplank sees Ann Hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. So please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. And thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. Before i start i wanted to think for a moment where we
Here before. You all know the history of the historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school. Ere 1853 Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the minor school for colored girls the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be you bere and worse that arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. She mightght that have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. Schoolst established the by the force of h