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FRIENDS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
From: Judith Wellman [email protected]
The Friends of the Underground Railroad is a new national not-for-profit group
that has just published its first newsletter, THE CONDUCTOR. The purpose of Friends of the Underground Railroad is to "identify and promote preservation of Underground Railroad sites, support grassroots and official Underground Railroad programs, and raise up this vital historical legacy for the benefit of current and future generations." One of the organizations this group supports is the National Park Service's Network to Freedom. We are planning a conference in the upstate New York area in the spring of 2006 and will be initiating an annual awards program.
Elizabeth Rankin-Fulcher, a member of the Black Women's Leadership Caucus in New York City, is President; Peter Michael, who owns Cooling Springs, a farm in Maryland that his family used as an Underground Railroad safe house, is Treasurer (see URL below for information about Pete's recent book); Iantha Gantt-Wright, consultant in environmental and diversity issues for National Park Service and corporate groups around the country, is Secretary; and yours truly is Vice-President. Board members include Tony Cohen, President, Menare Foundation; Kate Clifford Larson, author of
Harriet Tubman, American Hero; Christopher Meinhardt, Architect and Preservationist, Friends of the Free State Capital of Kansas; Allen Uzikee Nelson, descendent of Frank Wanzer, freedom seeker, and retired faculty, University of D.C.; and Audrey Peterman, President, Earthwise Productions, Atlanta, Georgia. Individual memberships are $25/year. We would love to count you as charter members! For more information, see
fourr.org. To join, contact Peter Michael, Treasurer, 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike, Adamstown, Maryland, 21710,
[email protected].
The New-York Historical Society has published a substantial book of essays on
Slavery in New York, edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris, with articles by Berlin, Harris, Christopher Moore, Jill Lapore, Graham Hodges, Patrick Rael, Shane White, Carla Peterson, Craig Wilder, Manisha Sinha, David Quigley, Iver Bernstein and Marcy Stacks, covering African-American life in slavery and in freedom, from the early colonial period through the Civil War and to the end of the 19th century.
LECTURES AT YALE, FEBRUARY, APRIL 2006
Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is holding a lecture series. Topics scheduled for
2006 include:
- February 13, 2006. "Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism," Bruce Laurie, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- March 27, 2006: "William Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in 19th-Century America," Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
- April 3, 2006: "The Global Garrison: America's Premier Radical Abolitionist and the International Response," Richard J. Blackett, Vanderbilt University
For more information on these and other GLC programs, visit the website at
www.yale.edu/glc/ or call 203-432-3339.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AND AMERICAN CULTURE
The University of Virginia has developed a very interesting web site on
Uncle Tom's Cabin, including related texts, both pro- and anti- slavery, documenting the context of Stowe's book and how it was received in the
1850s and later. The website is a wonderful source of both textual and
graphic material on slavery and abolition in 19th century America.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
December 9, 2005
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