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A Date With History: African Prince with Ed Papenfuse
May 10, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
A Date with History Lecture Series
“African Prince, Eastern Shore Slave”
The Quakers and Slavery on the Eastern Shore
with Dr. Ed Papenfuse, MD State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents
May 10th, 2023 at 1pm
See below for reservation details
Dr. Edward Papenfuse will speak about an Eastern Shore slave who ran away from his owner in 1734, was captured in Delaware, and then discovered to be an African Muslim Prince from Gambia whose family owned slaves. He made it home by way of a visit to London to meet royalty, but thousands of other slaves on the Shore did not. At this time the only voices faintly calling for the end of slavery were the Quakers and for a time, the Methodists.
Date: May 10, 2023 at 1pm
Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland
Reservations are required and the cost is
FREE for THS members and $5 for non-members.
If you have any questions or wish to sign-up, please contact the
Talbot Historical Society at