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SUMMARY:Exploring the Jagged Edges of History: Graphic Novel Book Launch at
  New Haven Museum
LOCATION:New Haven Museum
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally renowned historian\, filmmaker\, playwrigh
 t\, and activist Dr. Marcus Rediker and award-winning artist David Lester 
 for the launch of their new graphic novel\, The Black Schooner: Rebellion 
 on the Amistad\, A Graphic Novel.Offering a powerful visual experience\, t
 he book carries readers from the 1839 rebellion on the Amistad by 53 peopl
 e from Sierra Leone\, to the resulting trials that achieved an unexpected 
 international victory for the abolitionist movement. The Black Schooner re
 -centers the West African rebels as the primary actors in their own freedo
 m story while presenting their tale of liberation and social justice to ne
 w readers in a new format. Rediker and Lester will share insights and disc
 uss the interpretation and behind-the-scenes decisions that guided the vis
 ual storytelling in this new medium.Signed copies of The Black Schooner: R
 ebellion on the Amistad by David Lester and Marcus Rediker\, and edited by
  Paul Buhle\, will be available for purchase.This program is organized by 
 New Haven Museum\, the Amistad Committee Inc.\, and the Gilder Lehrman Cen
 ter for the Study of Slavery\, Resistance\, and Abolition.New Haven Museum
  is a CT Freedom Trail Site. The Amistad story has united cities and towns
  across Connecticut around a shared history\, which inspired the formation
  of the Connecticut Freedom Trail. This program is offered as a Connecticu
 t Freedom Trail month activity.About Marcus RedikerRediker is Distinguishe
 d Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has wr
 itten or edited 18 books\, including“The Many-Headed Hydra” with Peter
  Linebaugh\,“The Slave Ship\,” “The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic O
 dyssey of Slavery and Freedom\,”The Fearless Benjamin Lay” and“Freed
 om Ship. ”His writings have won numerous awards and been published in tw
 enty-two languages worldwide. He wrote the stage play\,“The Return of Be
 njamin Lay\,” with Naomi Wallace. He has also created four graphic novel
 s with David Lester and Paul Buhle and a children’s book with Michelle M
 arkel and Sarah Bachman. He has produced two documentary films with Tony B
 uba:“Ghosts of Amistad” and “Becoming Benjamin Lay.”About David Le
 sterDavid Lester is the co-creator of the graphic novels “The Black Scho
 oner: Rebellion on the Amistad\,” “Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro
 -Irish Uprising of 1741\,” “Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of
  the Atlantic” and “Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay.” Translat
 ions of those volumes have been published in seven languages. He has a cha
 pter in the anthology "Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-fascist Resist
 ance." His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at 
 The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Lester is guitarist in the
  rock duo Mecca Normal\, cited as an influence on the founders of the femi
 nist social movement Riot Grrrl. In 2025\, Rolling Stone's list of 100 Bes
 t Protest Songs of All Time included Mecca Normal's "I Walk Alone.” He l
 ives in Vancouver\, Canada.About the New Haven MuseumThe New Haven Museum 
 has been collecting\, preserving and interpreting the history and heritage
  of Greater New Haven since its inception as the New Haven Colony Historic
 al Society in 1862. Located in downtown New Haven at 114 Whitney Avenue\, 
 the Museum brings more than 375 years of New Haven history to life through
  its collections\, exhibitions\, programs and outreach. As a Blue Star Mus
 eum\, the New Haven Museum offers the nation’s active-duty military pers
 onnel and their families\, including National Guard and Reserve\, free adm
 ission all year. For more information visit http://newhavenmuseum.org or @
 NewHavenMuseum or call 203-562-4183.\n\nBoletos: https://www.simpletix.com
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