This lecture series for history aficionados will feature local historian, educators, and more as they share their knowledge of local and regional history.
This lecture series for history aficionados will feature local historian, educators, and more as they share their knowledge of local and regional history. As part on Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park’s Black History Month programming, Montgomery Parks Historian and Author, Jamie Kuhns will present Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come From Black Clouds : The Life of Josiah Henson. Light refreshments will be provided.
Intended for ages 18&up
$8
2019/02/27 - 2019/02/27
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An in-depth biography, Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson, details the life Reverend Josiah Henson based on Henson’s 1849 autobiography (and subsequent editions) and primary source documents produced by Montgomery Parks’ Senior Historian, Jamie F. Kuhns – spanning over 10 years of research.
This biography will complement the visitor experience at the soon-to-be-built Josiah Henson Museum at Josiah Henson Park in North Bethesda, Maryland. This is the site of the former Isaac Riley Plantation where Henson was enslaved for over 30 years.
Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds does not shy away from the details of slavery on a Maryland plantation which is based on the life of an enslaved person – as told in his own voice. It is a comprehensive portrait of Reverend Henson and the 19th-century world in which he lived.
Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park
16501 Norwood Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860