Join us at The Learning Center for an evening with an amazing panel of experts: DR. SYLVIANE DIOUF, the country’s leading scholar on the African diaspora and marronage; DR. PAUL PRESSLY, whose expertise spans colonial Georgia and the Lowcountry’s Gullah-Geechee cultural and environmental legacies, ; RICHARD KANASKI, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Regional Archaeologist and Historical Preservation Officer; and best-selling novelist GEORGE DAWES GREEN, a son of coastal Georgia, whose latest creative work has brought Savannah’s history to life.

*This is a ticketed, in-person event. Reserve your seats and order books on Eventbrite!

“If history is made up of crime stories, then why not a crime story to help rethink history?”, so says the New York Times in its glowing review of George Dawes Green’s new novel, Kingdoms of Savannah. But little known, even in this city full of stories and storytellers, is an important American chapter of Black history on the Savannah River that served as the seed for Green’s latest.

In partnership with The Learning Center, The Book Lady Bookstore is bringing together this incredible group of historians and preservationists, along with Moth founder George Dawes Green, to explore the fascinating and inspiring history of black resistance and marronage on Savannah’s Belleisle Island and Bear Creek, from the marshes of the Lowcountry to daring escapes toward the promised safety of Spanish Florida and Native Lands.

Please read on for more about the work of Sylviane Diouf, George Dawes Green, Paul Pressly and Richard Kanaski…