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Slavery By Another Name screening
2016 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Suggested $10
Celebrate Black History Month with a PBS Film & The Very Latest Research on Concord’s African American History
– Presented by The Robbins House & First Parish in Concord
On Sunday, February 28th from 4-6pm – The documentary Slavery By Another Name, based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, will be screened at First Parish in Concord, in partnership with The Robbins House. Afterward, Historian Dr. Robert Gross will introduce Robbins House Scholar-in-Residence John Hannigan for a discussion of his latest research about Concord African Americans and how it relates to the film. Please join us for the conversation!
$10 suggested donation for the event will support future Robbins House public programs.
RSVP to Blowe at firstparish.org. Refreshments will be served.
![Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? We have you covered with a little Robbins house trivia. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem entitled Peter’s Field. Peter’s Field most likely referenced Peter Hutchinson, who was the last African American owner of The Robbins House. Peter purchased the home in 1852 and lived with his wife, Nancy, and several of their children in the home until 1868. Emerson described Peter’s farm, and by extension the original area of farmland attached to The Robbins House out in the Great Field like this:
KNOWS he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At midnight and at morn?]
That field by spirits bad and good,
By Hell and Heaven is haunted,
And every rood in the hemlock wood
I know is ground enchanted.
[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I wandered up,
I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
For in those lonely grounds the sun
Shines not as on the town,
In nearer arcs his journeys run,
And nearer stoops the moon.
There in a moment I have seen
The buried Past arise;
The fields of Thessaly grew green,
Old gods forsook the skies.
Happy Reading!](https://robbinshouse.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)