Live Digital and In-Person Event | Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. EST / 12:00 p.m. CST / 11:00 a.m. MST / 10:00 a.m. PST

“Freedom Suite: Amazing Grace and Uncle Tom” is a reader’s theater dramatization of the life of John Newton, the sailor who captained one of the most notorious slave trading ships in the British Empire, and how his story affected author Harriet Beecher Stowe as she wrote the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” a century later. The program, written and performed by Michael Edgar Myers and Vikki J. Myers, will be presented Saturday, April 11 at 12 Noon in the Rassmussen Room North. It is the fourth in the series of six shows by Kingdom Impact Theater Ministries it America 250 theater festival, “Convergence of History: Four Anniversaries, One Faith,” which spotlights events and individuals in the complicated relationship between Black History, American History and Christianity. The festival runs through Juneteenth weekend in various locations in Chicago and suburbs.

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