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Thu. Sept. 24, 1 p.m.: Anna Murray and Annie Douglass letters at Easton library

Professors Nicole King and Celeste-Marie Bernier discuss mother-daughter freedom work in the Meeting Room at 100 W. Dover Street; adult program.

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Nineteenth-century letters, cloth-bound book, and gloves on a library table
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EASTON, MARYLAND — On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., Talbot County Free Library’s Easton branch hosts “Anna Murray and Annie Douglass: Sharing A Mother and Daughter’s Life Stories” in the Meeting Room at 100 West Dover Street.

The library calendar lists Professors Nicole King and Celeste-Marie Bernier for a conversation about personal letters written by Anna Murray Douglass and her daughter, Annie Douglass. The event text frames the pair as Underground Railroad liberators and civil rights campaigners in their own right, working alongside Frederick Douglass and other family members. Branch phone: (410) 822-1626.

This is not a softener for hard history. It is a scheduled hour on how a mother and daughter wrote their way through freedom work that is too often told as a single famous man’s story.

Source: Talbot County Free Library

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