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Fall Four Part Lecture Series
"For Light and Liberty:
African Descent Spies in the War of the Rebellion"

General admission: $10.00*
Students: $5.00*

African Foundation
Friday, October 28, 2011
7:00pm to 9:00pm

American Formation
Thursday, November 3, 2011
7:00pm to 9:00pm

Champions of Liberty
Thursday, November 10, 2011
7:00pm to 9:00pm

For Light and Liberty
Thursday, November 17, 2011
7:00pm to 9:00pm

In this four-part lecture series, Hari Jones identifies and tracks the activities of a secret African descent organization that sought to and fought to end slavery in league with the U. S. Constitution. The first lecture, “African Foundation”, identifies a number ofwell-educated Africans captured as prisoners of war and brought to the Americas. Inthis lecture, the pre-existing network from which certain African knowledge circles in America were established will be identified and discussed. In the “American Formation”,the ideology or rather the liberation theology of these Africans and their descendantsis identified and examined. The third lecture, “Champions of Liberty”, explores thepersonalities, the catalysts and champions, who led the organization and their activitiesin the decades before the Civil War. The footprint of this secret African descentorganization, which became the single most important source of military intelligenceduring the Civil War, is examined in the last lecture “For Light and Liberty”.

The lecture series will be held in the auditorium of the New African American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont ave NW Washington, DC 20001.

*$10.00 (total $20.00/$15.00) includes power point presentation on CD. $55.00 for admission to all four lectures with all four power point presentations

Recommended reading before the lectures: The Spider and the Starfish: The UnstoppablePower of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom