Cheryl Wills: A Family Story of Slavery and Freedom

Within her book, Die Totally free: A Heroic Family Story, award-winning news anchor Cheryl Wills traces the powerful story of her captive great-great-great-grandfather, who ran far from a Tennessee plantation to participate in the fight for independence. From your Civil War and Jim Crow to the Great Migration, Wills’s tale is as sweeping as it is personal.
Sign up for BHS for this speak and book signing.
 
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street
Monday Feb 12,2018
6pm
Tickets $10 here