03/21/2026
Rescheduled to Saturday, March 28th 2pm!
Join us for a lecture from Dr. Michael Pregot based on his book "Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod: A Massachusetts Incongruity". Dr. Pregot will focus on how Massachusetts was a major slave trading hub prior to the American Revolution and then transformed slowly to the center of abolitionism. He will also discuss that even though the slave trade was officially banned in the commonwealth, many Cape Cod mariners benefited indirectly by selling products such as rum, cotton, low grade fish, and even in surreptitiously transporting runaways to the North.
Dr. Pregot has spent half of a century serving in various educational roles. He has served as a modern language teacher, a school principal, a district-wide school superintendent, a professor of Education Leadership, and a director of a University Educational Leadership Program at Iona College in New Rochelle and at Long Island University in Brooklyn. He holds a B.S degree from St. Francis College, a Master’s in French from Assumption College, a CAGS from Middlebury, a Master’s in School Management from Framingham State University, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Boston University.
