Remember Liss: A New American Founding Figure [ZOOM]

Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau for a captivating program exploring the remarkable story of Elizabeth “Liss”, an enslaved woman owned by the Townsend family of Oyster Bay. Through Liss’s extraordinary journey, Bellerjeau sheds new light on the Revolutionary era and the nation’s founding, revealing this pivotal history through the eyes of an enslaved Black woman seeking liberty in a country fighting for its own.

Image credit: Claire Bellerjeau