History Hour at Josiah Henson Museum and Park
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Thursday, March 7 | 6-7 p.m.
Ticket Cost: $5
Attend a special History Hour lecture for Women's History Month at Josiah Museum and Park in North Bethesda, MD! PGCC's African American Studies Institute Director, Dr. Iyelli Ichile, will present a lecture on "Architects of Resistance: African Womanhood and the Struggle Against American Slavery." Arrive early and take a self-guided Josiah Henson Museum and Park tour. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Tickets include the self-guided tour of the park, which is the former plantation property of Isaac Riley, where Reverend Josiah Henson was enslaved. This park is a historic site of local, state, national, and international significance because of its association with Reverend Henson, whose 1849 autobiography "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself" inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."