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FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, FORUM: FLIGHT AS RESISTANCE TO SLAVERY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2005
A forum on "Flight as Resistance to Slavery" will
be held Saturday, August 27, 2005, 10 a.m. to noon, at the Shiloh Baptist
Church (Old Site) on Sophia Street in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Participants include Jenny Masur of the National Park Service Network to
Freedom Project, James Spady, lecturer in American History at Mary Washington,
and Eli Tubman, a descendant of Harriet Tubman.
The first of these
forums, held in March at the University of Mary Washington, launched a community
discussion board for Mary Washington
students and local people:
http://jerryslezak.net/slavery/index.php
The event is sponsored by Old Site Shiloh Baptist Church, the Moncure Conway
House Foundation, and the Center for African American Genealogical Research.
Co-sponsors include the James Farmer Multicultural Center at the University
of Mary Washington and the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military
Park.
CONTACT: James Spady,
History and American Studies Department, The University of Mary Washington,
Phone: 540.371.6208; Paula Royster, President of the Center for African American Genealogical Research, Phone:
540.907.6700; Norm and Lenetta Schools, Moncure Conway House Foundation,
305 King Street, Falmouth, Phone: 540.368.0464
THE GARRETT FAMILY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, HAVERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
Robert E. Seeley will present a program on "The Garrett Family of Upper Darby and the Underground Railroad" on Wednesday, September 28, 2005, at 7 p.m., at the Haverford Senior High School. This is part of the course offerings of the Haverford Township Adult School. The course fee of $15.00 should be sent to the Haverford Township Adult School, P.O. Box 806, Havertown, PA 19083-0806, or call them at 610-446-8033. Robert Seeley can be contacted by e-mail at
[email protected]
OHIO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SOCIETY SUMMIT, OCTOBER 14-16, 2005
The Friends of Freedom Society/Ohio Underground Railroad Society is holding their tenth annual "Summit" in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, October 14 to Sunday, October 16, 2005. The program includes visits to Underground Railroad sites and a keynote address by Dorothy Spruill Redford, Executive Director of the Somerset Place State Historic Site in Cresswell, North Carolina and author of
Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage.
For information about the conference and registration materials, go to:
http://www.ohioundergroundrailroad.org/program.htm
QUILTS AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 22, 2005
The annual meeting of the American Folklife Society, held in
Atlanta, includes a panel on Saturday, October 22, 2005, 10:15-12:00 noon, on "The Underground Railroad Quilt Code," chaired by Laura Horton. Speakers include Courtney Brooks, East Tennessee State University, "Contravenes, Quilts, and Codes," Laurel Horton, Kalmia Research, "The Underground Railroad Quilt Code: Traditional Narrative Strategies in Promoting a Good Story," Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State University Museum, "The
'Secret Code' in Quilts: Creating Authenticity," and Deborah R. Grayson, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Who Can Speak For Others?: Race and Place in Debates About Hidden in Plain View."
Persons interested should consult the American Folklore Society's website for information about registration and other details of its annual meeting at
www.afsnet.org
CALL FOR PAPERS: URR HISTORY CONFERENCE, TROY, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24-26, 2005
The 5th annual Underground Railroad History Conference organized by Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Albany, NY, will be held at Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, February 24-26, 2005.
The continuing effort to uncover and document the history of the Underground Railroad movement in New York State inspires this conference. We seek papers that offer new insights, research, and stories, or that expand on existing knowledge of the Underground Railroad History of New York State as it relates to regional, national, and international UGR history.
Papers can be broad or narrow in their focus, they can highlight local freedom seekers - who they were, where they came from, where they went, how they got there, their collaborators and supporters, the abolitionists, and their pursuers. They can also focus on locations, organizations, events, and theoretical concepts. Papers for publication are welcome for submission to the review panel. Papers, panel presentations, and roundtable discussions are welcome for presentation at the conference.
In celebration of the fifth year of the Underground Railroad History Conference, following the conference the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc. will publish an edited volume of papers, which will be selected by a juried panel. Papers for publication should be submitted by October 15, 2005, to Kate Clifford-Larson, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115-5898.
If you are interested in presenting at a workshop at the 5th annual Underground Railroad History Conference, please send the following to
[email protected] by September 15: A brief expression of interest and an abstract of no more than 150 words. All workshops are 60 minutes in length, they will be scheduled on Saturday, February 25, 2006, and they will be held in Gurley Hall at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.
Questions? Email to [email protected] or call Mary Liz Stewart at (518)
432-4432 or write Mary Liz Stewart, Conference Coordinator, Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc., P.O. Box 10851, Albany, NY 12201.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
August 24, 2005
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