Carol gardner biography

Old Bristol Historical Society (OBHS) and Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) present speaker Carol Gardner online on February 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm.

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This online lecture is free and open to the public, with pre-registration required.

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Dr. Carol Gardner will discuss her book, The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery, a narrative history that follows two northern families throughout the turbulent 19th century.

Born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799, Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon were neighbors and schoolmates in Portland, Maine. Yet they were worlds apart, separated by temperament, family culture and race: Reuben was Black and Nathaniel was white.

The Rubys became prominent antislavery activists and operatives on the Underground Railroad.

The Gordons became well-to-do ship masters: among them, the most notorious American slave capta