A Slave Next Door
Thursday, October 29 · 4:15 PM–4:45 PM
HSSC Multi-purpose Room (HSSC A1231): 1226 Park St · Grinnell, IA 50112
Hosted by Grinnell College
In 2017, Alex Tizon confessed in The Atlantic that his family had kept Eudocia Tomas Pulido, known as Lola, as an unpaid servant for 56 years. Many readers were outraged. Yet the historian Vicente Rafael defended the arrangement as part of Philippine culture, and People magazine portrayed Pulido as a beloved member of the family. Why did so many justify her enslavement? This talk revisits her story through the accounts of relatives Tizon never consulted.
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