Attend a special screening of this movie with author Regina Mason and filmmaker/ producer Sean Durant. Winner of the Roots Award at the 15th Annual Oakland International Film Festival in 2017, the film offers an inspiring story based on Mason’s odyssey to New Haven and Litchfield to research William Grimes, her great-great-great-grandfather, and his flight from slavery. While working with former Librarian James Campbell at the New Haven Museum, Mason discovered the only known image of Grimes—the engraving on the 1855 cover of his autobiography, a pioneering slave narrative first published in 1825. Grimes lived and worked in New Haven and is buried in Grove Street Cemetery.
Durant’s filmmaking conveys not only Mason’s long road to uncover her past, but also the unimaginable conditions that Grimes faced as he struggled to free himself from slavery and the hardships he endured as a free man in the North.
Admission is free.
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