Black History Month: “Benevolence and Success in the Era of Slavery: Duchess Quamino and William Ellery Channing” - Rhode Island Slave History Medallions

Black History Month Program Live and Virtual

The public is invited to attend an illustrated Black History Month lecture, “Benevolence and Success in the Era of Slavery: Duchess Quamino and William Ellery Channing,” to be held February 26 at 2:00 p.m., presented by the Rhode Island Slave History Medallions, live at Channing Memorial Church, 135 Pelham St., Newport. and simulcast online on Channing’s YouTube channel or go to YouTube and search “Channing Memorial Church, Newport RI”.

The speaker is Akeia de Barros Gomes, Ph.D., anthropologist, senior curator of Maritime Social Histories at the Mystic Seaport Museum, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Slavery and Justice at Brown University.  She will talk about the lives and relationships of formerly enslaved nanny and baker Duchess Quamino of Newport and the abolitionist William Ellery Channing, a renowned early leader and longtime minister of the Unitarian Church.