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Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself (2023), staged reading.
15/03/2023 at 18:00 – 19:30
A new play inspired by a rare 1723 letter from an anonymous enslaved Virginian to the ‘Lord arch Bishop of London’, Incidents (2023) draws on archival research and historical imagination to bring to light, 300 years after a bold act of resistance, the life of a ‘poore’ parishioner of the Church of England, author of one of the earliest pleas for freedom from slavery in the British Empire.
Desirée Baptiste is a writer and researcher based in London (www.desireebaptiste.com)
All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket via Eventbrite or email archives@churchofengland.org not later than Monday 13 March.
Free
