Meadow Dibble, founder and director of Atlantic Black Box, visited the library as part of the Maine Humanities Council's Maine Speaks series. "Whitewashing the Diseased Ship" delves into the implications of the docking of a ship carrying a deadly yellow fever in Boston in 1819 and how it relates to conversations about racial justice and healing today. Meadow's program covers the true, dramatic story of a Maine-built ship, a prominent Yankee sea captain, a tragedy on the high seas, a viral outbreak, a major political cover up, and a conspiracy of silence that has lasted two centuries surrounding New England's involvement in the slave trade.
Special thanks to Berwick Community Media for filming this program.
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