Today: Meet Me at Barnes & Noble in West Hartford!

Memorial
Written By John Mills

Hello Friends!

If you're in the West Hartford area today, I'd love to see you!

I'll be at Barnes & Noble in West Hartford this afternoon signing copies of my new book, The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American History.

Date: Today
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Barnes & Noble
60 Isham Road
West Hartford, CT 06107

The Narrative of Primus tells the remarkable story of Primus, a man captured in The Gambia and enslaved in colonial Connecticut, and traces the extraordinary journey of his descendants through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and beyond. The book explores how one family's history became deeply intertwined with the history of our nation while helping restore stories that had been forgotten for generations.

Whether you've been following my work for years or are just learning about it, I'd be honored to meet you, sign a copy of the book, and talk about the incredible stories behind it.

Please stop by if you're able—I would truly enjoy seeing you!

Warm regards,

John Mills
Founder & President, Alex Breanne Corporation
Author, The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American History

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

https://alexbreanne.org
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