BURLINGTON, Vt., -The public is invited to join renowned author and journalist Catherine Manegold for an hour of reflection and conversation about the history of slavery in the North. Manegold, a former journalist for The New York Times, Newsweek and the Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak at Champlain College on Friday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Champlain College's Alumni Auditorium. The talk, in honor of Black History Month, is free and open to the public.

In Manegold's recently published, "Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North," she explores the early history of black slavery in North America, revealing the interlaced stories of three families of slave-owners who lived on a New England farm first settled by John Winthrop. This riveting history unfolds over 150 years as these families lived with slaves and profited from the slave trade in the North, the West Indies, and the American South. Isaac Royall, heir to a huge fortune made through slavery and the slave trade in Antigua, granted Harvard College funds to create a professorship of law. From that seed grew Harvard Law School.

Manegold is a passionate writer and teacher and served as the James M. Cox, Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory University in Atlanta from 2001-2006. She is currently at Mt. Holyoke College, where she teaches long-form narrative, journalism ethics, and a course called "story trackers" which explores the translation of serious works of literary non-fiction into film. She is also the author of "In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner and a Changing America," published by Knopf in 2000 and recognized by the Los Angeles Times on its list of "best non-fiction" for that year. More information is available at http://www.tenhillsfarm.com.

A book signing will follow the presentation. Cash, check or credit cards will be accepted.

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"FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF SLAVERY" AUTHOR TO SPEAK, Friday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m., Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, 163 South Willard St., Burlington. The public is invited to join renowned author and journalist Catherine Manegold for an hour of reflection and conversation about the history of slavery in the North. Manegold, a former journalist for The New York Times, Newsweek and the Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak about her new book, Ten Hills Farm, The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. The Black History Month talk is free and open to the public.

TEN HILLS FARM: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (Cloth $29.95, 978-0-691-13152-8, January 20, 2010) When Barack Obama studied law at Harvard did he know his apartment lay on ground that was home to slaves for 150 years? Did he know that an early owner of that land gave money from the slave trade to help found the famous law school he attended?

New England proudly names its heroes. But who in this century knows that slavery persisted in Massachusetts longer than it did in Georgia? TEN HILLS FARM restores this memory. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, C.S. Manegold, tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royalls; each one a prominent dynasty tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative, Manegold exposes how these families' fortunes and the fate of Ten Hills Farm were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy.

TEN HILLS FARM takes readers on a sea voyage to the New World in the early 17th century, leading us through history up to the early 21st century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery.

Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm-from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua-would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice.

This questionable past lay discreetly buried in Medford, Massachusetts...until now.

C. S. Manegold is the author of In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America (Knopf). She was a reporter with The New York Times, Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer before turning her attention to longer works of non-fiction. Winner of numerous national reporting awards, in 1993, Manegold was part of The New York Times' team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center.