National Museum of the Great Lakes
1701 Front St
Toledo, OH 43605
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | 12 - 1 p.m.
Join NMGL for their very first book club, featuring books that give new insight into our Great Lakes.
National Museum of the Great Lakes' February book is The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles. Grab some lunch and join us online for a guided discussion about the book.
We are limiting the size of the group to facilitate discussion. If we reach capacity, we will keep a waiting list and with the hope of opening additional sessions of the program.
About the Book
A brilliant paradigm-shifting book that “transports the reader back to the eighteenth century and brings to life a multiracial community that began in slavery” (The New York Times), The Dawn of Detroit reveals for the first time that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest’s iconic city. Hailed by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as “a necessary work of powerful, probing scholarship,” The Dawn of Detroit meticulously uncovers the experience of the unfree—both native and African American—in a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict.
Tiya Miles has skillfully assembled fragments of a distant historical record, introducing new historical figures and unearthing struggles that remained hidden from view until now. “In her eloquent account,” the Washington Post declared, “Miles conjures up a city of stark disparity and lives quashed.”
A message from the past for our troubled present, The Dawn of Detroit is “an outstanding contribution that seeks to integrate the entirety of U.S. history, admirable and ugly, to offer a more holistic understanding of the country” (Booklist, starred review).
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