Telling the Whole Story: Black History at Ashland
Speaker: Eric Brooks
This presentation will provide some perspective of the people of color, enslaved and employed, who lived and worked at Ashland from 1808-1948. This is a story of resistance and resilience. Black people at Ashland had rich and interesting lives and created agency for themselves even though they faced injustice and racism on a constant basis. Black people at Ashland were rarely able to record their stories or preserve evidence of their lives. We have to tease that information from a range of sources, and it often comes in fragments that we must assemble into stories.
