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Involuntary Americans: Scottish Prisoners in early Colonial Maine

Name: Involuntary Americans: Scottish Prisoners in early Colonial Maine
Start: 2020-11-19T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-11-19T20:00:00+00:00

November 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Not all of Maine’s earliest Europeans came voluntarily.
Carol Gardner will deliver a talk (via Zoom) entitled “Involuntary Americans: Scottish Prisoners in Early Colonial Maine” discussing the more than 400 prisoners of war who were brought here to New England against their wills in 1650-51.
Dr. Gardner is the author a recently published narrative history, “The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World.”

Click here for the program: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/86578764603

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Date:: November 19, 2020
Time:: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Category:: Community Events
Event Tags:: Carol Gardner, colonial Maine, Involuntary American, Scottish prisoners