Historic Sotterley Debuts Exhibit Tracing Journey From Chesapeake To Trinidad - The BayNet
The exhibit traces formerly enslaved men who joined the British military and follows their diaspora to Nova Scotia, England and Trinidad.
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Sotterley Exhibit Tells Colonial Marines' Story of Freedom
In the summer of 1814, four men paddled a canoe from Sotterley Creek to find the British fleet. Weeks later they came back in British uniforms, and dozens more people left with them. That account, as Historic Sotterley tells it, is part of the story behind a new exhibit now open in the Hollywood site’s […]
Historic Sotterley Debuts Exhibit Tracing Journey From Chesapeake To Trinidad - The BayNet
HOLLYWOOD, Md. – Historic Sotterley is proud to announce the debut of a powerful new exhibit, “Black Red Coats on the Chesapeake Bay: Freedom Seeking Soldiers from Tangier to Trinidad,” now open in the Visitor Center. This compelling installation explores the War of 1812, the origins of the Colonial Marines, an extraordinary regiment within the British military composed entirely of formerly enslaved people from the Chesapeake region, and their r…
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