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MARYLAND: JOB SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH WEBMASTER
Maryland State Archives, Annapolis has an opening for a Webmaster to fill a
contractual position with a grant funded research project, "Beneath the
Underground: The Flight to Freedom and Antebellum Communities in Maryland."
Duties will include designing, developing, organizing, editing, and
maintaining project website (http://www.mdslavery.net) and associated
databases. Must have good communication skills to respond to website users
and partner organizations. Experience with HTML, graphics, and
web-authoring tools required. Additional experience with SQL, Cold Fusion,
and Access databases preferred. This is a full-time contractual State
position without benefits. For more information, please contact Christopher
E. Haley, Director, The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at
(410)260-6478 or [email protected]
URR MARKER DEDICATION, GREENWICH, NY, NOVEMBER 6, 2004
From: "DCraig1"
On Saturday, November 6, 2004, the NorthStar Historical Project and the
Village of Greenwich will be unveiling a historic marker donated by the
Washington County Historical Society and the Village of Greenwich. The
marker honors Union Village's (former name of Greenwich) involvement in the
Underground Railroad and those abolitionists who lived in the village in
the mid 1800s. These include Hiram Corliss, William and Angelina Mowry,
Edwin Andrews, Leonard Gibbs, and several others. It consists of a map of
the time period showing the location of the homes of these abolitionists so
that visitors can lead themselves on a self-guided tour. Only two of the
buildings no longer exist; the Free Congregational Church and the home of
Hiram Corliss.
There will be a short program followed by refreshments at the Greenwich
Free Library. Cliff Oliver will lead a walking tour of the historic
district following the reception. The sign will be in Mowry Park across
from the Evergreen Bank and the Greenwich Free Library on Main Street in
Greenwich.
The ceremony will begin at 2:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
PASSAGES TO FREEDOM: URR BOOK PUBLISHED
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and
Memory, edited
by David W. Bright, published by Smithsonian Books in association with the
Underground Railroad Freedom Center is now available. The volume includes
fifteen essays on slavery, the abolitionist movement, the Underground
Railroad and resistance to slavery, and on current research and
interpretation of the Underground Railroad in the United States. Solidly
researched and written by leading scholars, the book provides a good
introduction to the subject. Much of the story will be broadly familiar to
close students of the Underground Railroad, though perhaps not to the
general public. Essays discuss well known figures such as William Still and
Harriet Tubman, and largely concern events and activities from the 1830s to
the destruction of slavery in the Civil War, though the treatment of
fugitive slaves in Florida and Vermont may be less familiar. Those
researching the Underground Railroad locally will benefit from the chapters
on current investigative and interpretative efforts in Vermont, Upstate New
York and by the National Park Service. There is certainly room for more
books on the topic and other voices. We have Catherine Clinton on Harriet
Tubman, but not the excellent scholarship of Kate Clifford Larson and Jean
Humez that has broadened and improved our understanding of Tubman. We have
James Oliver Horton on William Still, but are also awaiting the publication
of James McGowan's new book on Still and Thomas Garrett. Jane Williamson
and Milton Sernett's accounts of current locally-based research reminds of
that there is much new research that we hope will eventually make its way
into print. An excellent volume reflective of much, but not all of the new
research and writing about the Underground Railroad.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library
November 02, 2004
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