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“Underground Railroad”
June 19, 2024

“Underground Railroad”

Nzinga’s Daughters: “Underground Railroad” African Storytelling, Songs & Drumming
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
$5 per person or $20 per Family
* Pre-registration required.

Litchfield Community Center invites everyone for a Freedom Celebration on Juneteenth featuring “Nzinga’s Daughters”.

They will take you from slavery to freedom with traditional African songs, a cappella plantation songs and stories. They’ll show you how enslaved blacks, free blacks and white abolitionists created codes, signs and signals, committed to memory and passed them by word of mouth, leading to the Underground Railroad.

*This is a Family-Friendly program.

Litchfield Community Center
421 Bantam Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-8302

https://thecommunitycenter.org/event.php?id=18968

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