Arts-In-Education Exploratory Enrichment

BOCES ARTS-IN-EDUCATION / EXPLORATORY ENRICHMENT
PROGRAM DETAILS



Program Title
Remember Liss
 
Provider Name
Remember Liss, Inc.
 
Claire Bellerjeau

New York , NY 10006
Phone:
(516)467-6793
Email:
claire.bellerjeau@rememberliss.org
Website:
www.rememberliss.org
Program Description
Meet historian and author Claire Bellerjeau as she reveals the incredible life of an enslaved Black woman from New York named Liss. Born in the 1760s, Liss was enslaved by the Townsend family of Oyster Bay, Long Island, whose son was Robert Townsend aka “Culper, Jr.” - George Washington's lead spy in Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. Mid-war, Liss escaped with a British commander, only to be re-enslaved in Manhattan by another enemy officer. As the Culper Spy Ring used secret codes and invisible ink to smuggle vital information to Washington, Liss may also have engaged in intelligence gathering for the Patriot cause. Liss’s escape with the British, re-enslavement in Manhattan and later Charleston, and her complex struggle for freedom sheds new light on the lives of thousands of other forgotten African Americans during the founding era in New York.
 
Categories
Social Studies, ,
 


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Program Recommendations
Grades
4,5,6,7,8



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Arts Standards
4


Other Standards 



Curriculum Connections 
History (World/US) , Social Studies , ,



Culturally Responsive 
3



Cost 
Cost Single: 150
Cost Multiple: 125


Duration
45 minutes