From the Free Library’s website:

The Vigilance Network illuminates the actions of the Black and white abolitionists who fought threats, prison, and social ostracism to guide freedom seekers in the decades before the Civil War, including a focus on the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. By following both abolitionists and escapees—who were sometimes one and the same—through the streets of Philadelphia and its suburbs, Hagen reconstructs the Vigilance Network’s largely unknown role in the Underground Railroad.

H&H Books will have copies of The Vigilance Network available for purchase & signing.

This event will be held in the Social Science and History Department at Parkway Central Library beginning at 6 PM. You can find more information about Parkway’s hours, amenities, and events here.

Carrie Hagen is an award-winning nonfiction writer who teaches writing at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. A longtime contributor to Smithsonianmag.com, she is also a narrative writer of civil rights history for the Thurgood Marshall Institute and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She currently resides in Philadelphia.

Hagen will be in conversation with Michiko Quinones, the Co-Founder and Lead Public Historian of the 1838 Black Metropolis, a non-profit dedicated to the restoration of antebellum Black Philadelphia histories.