HBO’s “The Gilded Age” Screening at Weeksville

HBO and Weeksville Heritage Center present a special screening of The Gilded Age, Season 3, Episode 8. Set in 19th-century New York, the episode foregrounds Black family life, courtship, ambition, and respectability through Peggy Scott’s storyline, taking on additional meaning when viewed at Weeksville, one of the nation’s most important pre-Civil War free Black communities. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Executive Producer Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

This event launches Weeksville Watch Nights, an ongoing film and conversation series continuing throughout the season.

Erica Armstong Dunbar Bio

Photo by: Whitney Thomas

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a historian, professor of African American Studies at Emory University, and main historical consultant and co-executive producer for HBO’s The Gilded Age, whose work shines a light on racial injustice, slavery, and gender inequality. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman, and Susie King Taylor.