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Exploring The Plain Sight Project

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David Rattray

David Rattray

Donnamarie Barnes

Donnamarie Barnes

authorStaff Writer on Aug 31, 2020

The East Hampton Star and the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection will present the Plain Sight Project: a conversation with Donnamarie Barnes and David Rattray, on Thursday, September 10 from 6 to 7:30 pm.

The Plain Sight Project was founded by Star editor David Rattray to find the enslaved people of East Hampton's history. Working with local students and community members, largely in the East Hampton Library's Long Island Collection, the project has found enslaved people in almost every household of means in East Hampton.

For this Long Island Collection event, Donnamarie Barnes, a curator and archivist at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island and chairwoman of the Plain Sight Project, will be speaking with Rattray over Zoom about the project and the scale of slavery on the East End. To learn more about how archival records are changing our understanding of local history, visit easthamptonlibrary.org and register for the Plain Sight Project event using the calendar.

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