Finding Mingo: A Man, a Myth, and a Beach

Name: Finding Mingo: A Man, a Myth, and a Beach
Start: 2024-11-14T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-14T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01915

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

117 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01915 | Beverly, MA

Mingo lived with his wife, a free indigenous woman named Deborah Tailer, on the headland at the western end of this modest beach. Legend has it that Mingo’s enslaver, Thomas Woodbury, promised him his freedom if the tides recessed enough for him to walk from the shore out to a rocky passage known as “Aunt Becky’s Ledge”—a rare phenomenon, the story continues, that had occurred on the day of Mingo’s involuntary arrival to Beverly, Massachusetts. The Mingo manumission myth is a complex piece of public memory. In this presentation, Dr. Elizabeth Matelski of Endicott College will explore the process of separating fact from fiction. This is a hybrid program, available either in person or online.
$12; $5 members of HB and Card to Culture