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SUMMARY:11/20 Seneca Village: A Story of Black Freedom and Manhattan Real
  Estate: Talk & Signing with Alexander Manevitz
DESCRIPTION:We are so proud of community member and professor Alexander M
 anevitz for his book Seneca Village: A Story of Black Freedom and Manhat
 tan Real Estate. Alexander will be in conversation with Davarian L. Bald
 win. More about the book: In Seneca Village\, Alexander Manevitz showcas
 es the ideas of freedom that underpinned this remarkable community\, bui
 lt in upper Manhattan with the intent to foster Black social\, economic\
 , and political self-determination. Between 1825 and 1853\, free African
  Americans bought land and built an innovative settlement. Then\, throug
 h the 1850s\, New York City forcibly evicted the residents\, seized the 
 land\, and destroyed the buildings\, burying this thriving neighborhood 
 under the landscape of the new Central Park. In this most in-depth inves
 tigation to date of Seneca Village\, Manevitz reconstructs the essential
  history of the community from the overlooked traces they left behind\, 
 focusing on the interconnected lives of Seneca Villagers and the daily w
 ork of liberation. Decades before the Civil War and Reconstruction\, the
 y honed a vision of Black freedom on their own terms\, fighting to creat
 e space for themselves in a country that promised liberty for all but de
 nied it to many. More about Alexander: Alexander Manevitz is a historian
 \, educator\, and public scholar on race\, freedom\, and urbanism in the
  nineteenth-century United States and New York City. He is a Assistant P
 rofessor of History at Baruch College\, City University of New York. Man
 evitz specializes in African American history\, the history of early Ame
 rican capitalism\, and how a diverse array of Americans shaped the growt
 h of the cities we live in today. More about Davarian: Davarian L. Baldw
 in is an internationally recognized scholar\, author\, and public advoca
 te. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studie
 s and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity Coll
 ege in Hartford\, Connecticut. His academic and political commitments ha
 ve focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalize
 d communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban local
 es. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books\, most recently
 \, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our
  Cities. He also served as the consultant and text author for The World 
 of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle (2022). Baldwin sits on the e
 xecutive committee of Scholars for Social Justice and the national counc
 il of the American Association of University Professors. His commentarie
 s and opinions have been featured in numerous outlets from NBC News\, BB
 C\, and HULU to USA Today\, The Washington Post\, and TIME magazine. Bal
 dwin was named a 2022 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation
  for his work.\n\nMore info: https://www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events
 \n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/a9163982-e2dd-46dd-b95d-ab58db8df9
 27
LOCATION:Possible Futures\, 318 Edgewood Ave\, New Haven\, CT 06511
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/a9163982-e2dd-46dd-b95d-ab58db8df92
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