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Live from History: James LaFayette, Revisited


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After repeatedly risking his life to spy on British troops for the Marquis de Lafayette, James was denied his perilously won freedom, and continued to fight for years after to gain it. He fought even longer to ensure the freedom of his family. Looking back on his life, James Lafayette talks of the challenges he faced being a newly freed Black man in a lawfully unequal society. Please join us to hear James’s heartbreaking, inspiring story HERE.