Simon Schama

Distinguished historian Simon Schama, author of the bestselling history of the French Revolution, Citizens, writer and host of the lauded BBC series A History of Britain, and professor of history and art at Columbia University, has written a new history of the thousands of African American slaves who fought for the Crown during the American War of Independence. Rough Crossings tells the little-known story from this era which saw a mass emancipation of slaves in the Americas – not by the revolutionaries but by their enemies. Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn interviews Schama about his fascinating and important new contribution to the history of the Revolution and of slavery in America. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.

Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating.