The Marquis de Lafayette is visiting Newburyport on a horse and carriage on August 30 at 3 PM! Join us as the Lafayette interpreter makes a stop at the Newburyport Public Library. Lafayette slept in the older part of the Library, known as the Tracy Mansion, during his Farewell Tour visit to the town in 1824.

After a welcoming speech and Lafayette’s reply, the interpreter will perform and solicit questions from the assembled citizenry.

At 4 PM, enter the library to hear a lecture by a leading historian of abolition, Manisha Sinha. Dr. Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and the 2024 President-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is also the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, which won several book prizes. Her latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, was recently the subject of a favorable review in the New York Times Book Review.

This program is a collaboration of the American Friends of Lafayette, the Massachusetts Lafayette Society, the Newburyport Public Library, and the Friends of the Newburyport Public Library.