Seen/Unseen with the Authors
Sunday, June 26, 2022, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium
Randy Reid, Christopher Lawton, and Laura Nelson are coming together for their FIRST in-person talk and signing of their book about the lived experiences of enslaved people, owned by the Cobb and Lamar families. The program will be held in the Athens-Clarke County Library’s Appleton Auditorium and co-sponsored by the Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room, Athens Historical Society, and T.R.R. Cobb House. Guests will be able to purchase the book Seen/Unseen as well as have it signed by the authors.
Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family, one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in antebellum America, labored in households and on plantations that spanned Georgia. Fragments of their lives were captured in thousands of letters written between family members, who recorded the external experiences of the enslaved but never fully reckoned with their humanity. Drawn together for the first time, these fragments reveal a community that maintained bonds of affection, kinship, and support across vast distances of space, striving to make their experiences in slavery more bearable.
