Gregory O'Malley

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Black History Celebration Presents Acclaimed Historian Gregory O’Malley

 
Author of “The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
 

Presented in Partnership with the Westfall Politics & History Series and the Missouri Historical Society

An America 250 Event

One of six inhabitants of the thirteen original colonies was enslaved. Historian Gregory O’Malley reveals a remarkable, untold experience of the American revolutionary period: a Black man’s decades-long quest for the freedom espoused by our Founders, but denied him and other enslaved people. Piecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—O’Malley presents a unique perspective on our nation’s origins, principles, and contradictions.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Books provided by Left Bank Books.