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URR NEWS: ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO, CONFERENCE,
JUNE 22-23, 2007 | ESCAPE OF THE PEARL, PHILADELPHIA, PA, JUNE 30, 2007
| WALKING TOURS OF ALBANY, NY, JUNE – OCTOBER 2007
CONFERENCE: BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO, JUNE 22-23, 2007
The Ontario Historical Society, in
partnership with the Ontario Black History Society, The City of St.
Catharines, and the Central Ontario Network for Black History present
“Forging Freedom: A Conference in Honour of the Bicentennial of the
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade” on June 22nd and June 23rd, 2007
at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Details of the conference, which include a keynote address by Kate
Clifford Larsen and a tour of local sites is posted on-line at:
http://www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/forgingfreedom/index.html
ESCAPE ON THE PEARL: BOOK TALK IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
JUNE 30, 2007
Mary K. Rocks, author of Escape on the Pearl will be
talking about her book on Saturday, June 30, 2007, at 2 p.m. at the Big Blue
Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WALKING TOURS OF ALBANY, NEW YORK
OFFERED JUNE – OCTOBER 2007
These are the dates for our remaining summer and fall season walking
tours for 2007 of Underground
Railroad locations in downtown Albany, New York. Each tour will start
from the Albany Visitor Center at Quakenbush Square. They last about one
and a half hours. The ground covered is about a mile.
We ask $7 per adult over 16. People younger than that can come for free.
The funds go to support the work of the Underground Railroad History
Project of the Capital Region, Inc., a non-profit 501( c )(3)
organization.
This work involves providing talks on the local figures in the
Underground Railroad story in the region to more than a thousand young
people and hundreds of adults each year, producing a newsletter three
times a year on local UGRR topics, restoration of the Stephen and
Harriet Myers Residence on Livingston Avenue in Albany, occasional
special speakers, continuing research on local UGRR history and the
annual UGRR conference that has taken on a state wide focus. Tours begin
at 1:00 PM.
June 10, 2007
July 22, 2007
August 19, 2007
September 16, 2007
October 14, 2007
Please plan to attend or share this information with friends. This is a
great opportunity to learn some of the history of the area, its relation
to slavery, and its relation to the Underground Railroad story. Please
note that our focus has been and continues to be on the African American
Abolitionists and the freedom seekers that have come through our
community. There are more than 70 freedom seekers (fugitives from
slavery as they are often called) whose stories we try tell.
-Paul Stewart,
[email protected]
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
June 5, 2007 |
