Join us for a double film screening with Self-Evident Education:

• If You Cross This Boundary We All Die, about Ellen and William Craft's journey of self-emancipation from Georgia to Boston and beyond.
• A Mother's Bond, the story of Catherine Linda, an enslaved woman who was brought by her enslavers to Northampton in 1845, where she learned she could obtain her freedom in Massachusetts. 

Following the films will be a panel discussion featuring Ilyon Woo, author of Master Slave Husband Wife (about Ellen and William Craft) and Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Associate Professor of History at Smith College and author of Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War. Ousmane Power-Green, Director of Africana Studies at Clark University, will facilitate the discussion.

Books will be available for purchase onsite courtesy of Broadside Books, and available to borrow at Forbes Library.

This program is sponsored by Self-Evident Education, in partnership with Forbes Library, Smith College History Department, Historic Northampton, Mass Humanities, Northampton Arts Council, Paradise Copies, the Beveridge Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Community Foundation of Western Mass. 

Location: Smith College Campus Center, Carroll Room, 100 Elm St, Northampton, MA 01063