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PROGRAM IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 2005
Note: The date of this program was incorrectly listed as August 18 in a previous posting of URR News. The correct date is Saturday, August 13, 2005.
The second of a two part series on the Underground Railroad and the African-American community in Delaware will be held on Saturday, August 13, 2005, at the Friends Meeting House, 401 North West Street, Wilmington, DE, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with guest lecturers: Dr. Lewis Baldwin, Bishop Elbert Jackson and a local historian to be announced later. This final lecture will honor Bishop Peter Spencer's legacy and celebrate Ezion Church's 200-year anniversary. These lectures are free and open to the public. The Quaker Hill Historic Preservation Foundation and Many Rivers History Community Project support these programs together with the City of Wilmington. Following each lecture, refreshments will be served. For more information, call Mary Starkweather-White at 302-984-2660 or Pat Lewis at 302-778-0155.
PUBLICATION: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
The July issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography includes Eric Ledell Smith, ed., "Rescuing African American Kidnapping Victims in Philadelphia as Documented in the Joseph Watson Papers at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania."
PUBLICATION: COOLING SPRING, FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND
An American Family of the Underground Railroad (2005) by Peter Michael concerns the Michael Family of Cooling Springs Farms, Adamstown, Frederick County, Maryland, and the Underground Railroad in Frederick County. For information, see the web site:
http://www.freedomrailroad.com/.
HARRIET TUBMAN JOURNAL: TUBMAN IN MASSACHUSETTS
The July 2005 issue of the on-line Harriet Tubman Journal, edited by James McGowan is now available. The lead article in the current issue is Jean M. Humez, "Harriet Tubman in Massachusetts, 1859-1905," by Jean M. Humez. Jean Humez is the author of.
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Back issues of the journal are also available on-line.
www.harriettubmanjournal.com.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
August 9, 2005
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