March 13: Scott Shane
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
Please join Church of the Redeemer for our next VOICES speaker, Scott Shane, on March 13.
Baltimore resident Scott Shane was a reporter for 15 years at The New York Times, where he was twice a member of teams that won Pulitzer Prizes, and before that for 21 years at The Baltimore Sun. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad.
Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Flee North also portrays the dangerous enemies faced by Smallwood, and his allies, including Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, who ran his slave-trading business from the Inner Harbor.
VOICES, the Redeemer Speaker Series invites contemporary voices to challenge and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once and find the wonder in both.
