Mary L. Shannon

It’s finally here 🎉, just in time for #BHM2024

Check out our new educational resource, ‘Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows’, here:

Based on research done for #BillyWatersIsDancing@yalebooks_history@yalebooks and new work by Ben Marsh.

It was great to be part of the team:

@MarshBen1
@ageofrev
@angelcakepie2
@dockyard.chatham
@selenarosescott

Request a set of our brand-new graphic novel, and we’ll send them directly to your door for FREE 💌

➡️ ageofrevolution.org/home/billy-waters

Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows allows students to navigate their way through the little-known and often ambiguous life story of a sailor, musician, husband, and father, who challenged the limitations that eighteenth-century society placed on folks like Waters, who happened to be poor, black, and later disabled.