Morristown National Historical Park Museum and Library

Saturday, July 15 at 1:00pm--American Historical Theater actress Kim Hanley will portray leading American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Change does not necessarily occur easily within civilization and in the elusive effort to achieve equity for all, there are always those who would resist amending their personal status quo. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shows us that reforms which would improve human condition overall must be nurtured and fought for. A visit with Mrs. Cady Stanton is a visit with an inspirational dynamo! She will encourage her guests to arm themselves with information, law, precedent, and energy in order to carry on the fight for Equality.

 

Sunday, July 16 at 1:00pm--American Historical Theater actress Dr. Daisy Century will portray the first published enslaved African American Phillis Wheatley. A copy of the park’s first edition of Wheatley’s poems will be on display. Phillis Wheatley’s life began in West Africa. Taken from her home on a slave ship when she was only 7, she was bought by the affluent and well-connected Wheatley family of Boston. The young girl looked so pitiful and so sickly and was “uncommonly intelligent,” so Mrs. Wheatley educated Phillis and had her work inside the house. She was further separated from other slaves because the Wheatley’s didn’t let her associate with them. Phillis Wheatley was between two worlds, belonging to neither.