David Brion Davis will be at the Freedom Center next week (for details see events on the right). Read a review by Brenda Wineapple of his newly published book in a recent New York Times Book Review to get a glimpse at what Dr. Davis will be speaking about. Dr. Davis’s larger argument is
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In a Public History Internship last summer, I was given the task of creating a video introduction for the living history tour “Hamilton Avenue Road to Freedom”. As a UC History major, and Electronic Media minor at the University of Cincinnati, this was the perfect opportunity to combine my two fields of study and apply
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2014. Will you save the valentines you get today? Will you get a valentine from someone who might someday become president? Helen L. Kemper kept this valentine she received from Benjamin Harrison in 1851 when he was a student at Miami University. Two years later he married Dr. Scott’s daughter, Caroline Scott
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Despite the increased renewal of interest in abolitionism, blacks have largely been absent from these portrayals. In Lincoln, black opposition to slavery was kept to a few scenes; PBS’ The Abolitionists profiled only one black abolitionist,Frederick Douglass; and in 12 Years a Slave, abolitionists are all white, ignoring even Solomon Northup’s role fighting slavery and demanding reparations after
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Thanks to John Johnson for a very nice article in the Sunday, Feb. 9th Enquirer “The mystery of John T. Crawford” on pages AA14-15. There is so much more to be told so we will post a new page under College Hill with more information about Mr. Crawford. He bought his farm here in
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Last August, my husband an I decided that we wanted to travel some of the route that the escaping “28” travels in 1853. It is 364 miles from Cincinnati to Windsor, Ontario. In Ann Arbor, we met Deborah Meadows from the African-American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenau County. Deborah graciously took us on a
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I happened to be in Sandwich, Ontario on a Sunday. I thought that maybe the Sandwich Baptist Church might be holding services and that I might be able to meet people who knew the history of the church. The church is where the “28” crossed into Canada and held a celebration. I am so
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On the search for the whole Escape of the 28 story, members of the Living History committee visited with Boone County Librarian, Bridget Striker. She took us on a tour of Petersburg and showed us the most likely path of the freedom seekers from the Parker Farm to the river banks where they crossed.