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Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
5:30 PM - 5:30 PM EST
Ticonderoga Campus Room 114
Presented by the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association
Hosted by the NCCC’s World History Class and the Diversity Task Force.
Open to the Public.
Film Summary for IMDB.com: Sarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the ante-bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Her chief duties at the plantation of Clel Waller are serving at table, spitting tobacco juice on roses to prevent bugs, and secretly conveying intimate messages between Waller's wife, Callie, and Dr. Chamberlaine. Then Nightjohn arrives. A former runaway slave who bears telltale scars on his back, he takes Sarny under his wing and, in exchange for a pinch of tobacco, secretly begins to teach her to read and write, a crime punishable by death. "Words," he says, "are freedom.
More information on the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association is available at:
http://www.northcountryundergroundrailroad.com/
Phone: 518-585-6619
Fax: 518-585-9184
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