Copies of How to Make a Slave will be available for purchase at the event. Free and open to all, the event will include a reading, book signing, and refreshments following the reading. at The Hingham Heritage Museum, 34 Main Street in Hingham. To honor his accomplishments, the Hingham Historical Society, in partnership with the Hingham Unity Council, is naming Jerald Walker a Hingham History Maker on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. It is titled after the Fredrick Douglass quote, “You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man,” and includes stories from growing up, parenting, writing, teaching, and existing as a black man in both an inner-city ghetto and predominately white suburbs. It is in this spirit – with a heavy dose of shrewd insight and wry humor – that Walker writes about his personal experiences with issues of race and shared humanity in his most recent book, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. “Anger is often a prelude to a joke,” writes Jerald Walker, Hingham resident and award-winning author, “as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.”
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