The David M. Hunt Library welcomes Connecticut storyteller, Denise Manning Keyes Page to the Center on Main on Saturday, June 20th at 2 pm to share the story of her ancestor, Alfred C. Manning.

She will share two parts of the trilogy “Legacy of a Wealthy Slave.”  In it she tells of her mother’s orphaned childhood and of how she, Denise, came to learn of her ancestors’ story.  It is the story a formerly enslaved man, her great-great grandfather in Edenton, NC, who purchases his freedom, moves to New Haven, registers a patent for his invention, buys property, and sends two of his sons to Yale University, from which they graduated in 1880 and 1881.

Ms. Page, will share more about the unfolding of Mr. Manning's fascinating "enslavement to autonomy" story during this performance.