An illustrated lecture about her new book by historian Allegra di Bonaventura
Sunday, July 27th Time: 4 p.m. Place: Union Chapel
A wonderfully detailed study of family life in 17th and 18th century New London and surrounding communities.
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Selected Reviews:
“An incomparably vivid panorama of colonial New England society and as enthralling a portrait of family life there as we are likely to have.”
~ Wall Street Journal
“The murders, attacks against churches, suicides, and illicit sex in For Adam’s Sake kept me turning pages, but Allegra di Bonaventura’s best stories are of black New Englander John Jackson … and his son Adam, who for half a century knew slavery at its most intimate. Your book club will love For Adam’s Sake.”
~ (Woody Holton, author of Abigail Adams)
“Allegra di Bonaventura has painted a rich canvas of the eighteenth-century town of New London, Connecticut … the book is a great story; great history.” (William S. McFeely, author of Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom)
“For Adam’s Sake achieves an amazing, seemingly impossible conjunction—the best book ever on New England family life and the best book ever on the family context of American slavery, neither pretty—a riveting story and great history based on astounding research.”
~ (Jon Butler, author of Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 )
“Allegra di Bonaventura’s dazzling debut illuminates the social landscape of colonial New England in all its fascinating complexity … With deep research and scrupulous fidelity to her sources, di Bonaventura enables us to hear the voices of her subjects and glimpse the rhythms and ruptures that defined a world we thought we had lost.”
~ (Peter Onuf, Senior Research Fellow, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies)
About the Author:
Allegra di Bonaventura is an assistant dean at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in New Haven, Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
