Virginia Richards | The Inner Passage

About this event

Please join Main Street Books and Davidson Learns for an evening with Virginia Richards - documentary photographer, historian, and environemntal lawyer - in conversation with Dr. Hilary Green for a conversation about Richards' book, The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway. ABOUT THE BOOK A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping—but which they used to escape slavery. With gorgeously rich tritone photographs and a hard-bound cover with tip-in, perfect for fine art or history lovers. Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the early 1700s. In a paradox of history, for over a hundred years enslaved Black people used these canals, constructed for white plantation owners, to travel southward to fre

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• Virginia RichardsAuthor

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Main Street Books

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