The Royall House & Slave Quarters presents the public program “Unsilenced from the Inside: Recovering Histories of Slavery from a Florida Prison.”

Since 2018, several men incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach have collected, transcribed, and analyzed archival documents regarding the history of enslavement on a former plantation located 30 miles from the prison. These incarcerated researchers have built an archive that testifies to the lives of enslaved men and women on the nearby Spring Garden Plantation, now a Florida state park, despite park exhibits referencing unnamed individuals who are “long forgotten.”

Dr. Andrew Eisen, co-director of the Community Education Project at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, will give an illustrated talk on the impressive work of his incarcerated students.

Admission is free for Royall House &  Slave Quarters members and $10 for non-members.