Freedom Lecture: Kellie Carter Jackson Freedom Lecture: Kellie Carter JacksonThursday, February 6, 2020 | Reception 6:00 P.M. | Lecture 7:00 P.M.National Underground Railroad Freedom Center50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Free lecture, click here to register through the Freedom Center website to reserve a seat. From the Freedom Center’s website: “In honor of Black history
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[Betty Ann Smiddy has put together a background history of the black settlement Carthagena, in Mercer County Ohio. This serves as helpful context and supplement to Smiddy’s recent booklet Hatfield: Barber, Deacon, Abolitionist. Mercer County was young when Dorcas Moore and her eight children presented emancipation papers[1] from Harrison County Kentucky, recorded Dec. 30, 1830
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A movie to be released Thursday, October 31st, will challenge many of the myths that surround Harriet Tubman. In the version of American history that is taught in our schools and featured in children’s literature, Tubman has always been one of the few African-Americans associated with the Underground Railroad. “Few figures in American history have been
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July 13, 2019 Our newest publication, John Hatfield Barber, Deacon, Abolitionist, was written for the Hatfield family and researchers. There are two versions available on our current publication page—a version of the story and an expanded version with more genealogical information. I’m going to interject myself into the story now, something I don’t usually
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A rare photograph of Levi Coffin which we feature in our Escape of the 28 booklet was just sold at auction. The story of this photo was published in the Fulton Sun on June 26, 2019. This picture is believed to be taken by prominent nineteenth century African-American photographer, abolitionist and businessman, James Presley Ball here in
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Fergus M. Bordewich’s 2005 book, Bound for Canaan: the War for the Soul of America is being mentioned now as one of the “must reads” on the Underground Railroad. I found an intreging review from the May 30th, 2005 New Yorker magazine: In the first years of the nineteenth century, most runaway slaves didn’t get
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The story of the Escape of the 28 is featured in an episode of Bizarre Foods currently airing on the Travel Channel. Check the Travel Channel website for showings of “Underground Railroad” episode or watch it on You Tube. Many local and regional historians and food experts appear in the show–the Wainscotts, Kristin Kitchen, Carl
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The film by Charles Campbell, All Or Nothin’, which is a dramatization of the Escape of the 28 from Boone County Ky, through College Hill, en route to Canada, was inspired by our research on the Escape of the 28. Local actors from the Cincinnati Black Theater Company and others were cast in the film that was
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Local historian and colleague in Hamilton Avenue Road to Freedom committee talks with Cincinnati People about Wesleyan Cemetery.
Jim Crow’s legacy has many faces. In this case, as the article For the Forgotten African-American Dead (Brian Palmer, 7 Jan 2017, NY Times) illustrates, it’s in the obliteration of Black history – the history of heroic participation by black soldiers in the Civil War, the history of esteemed forebears – by the neglect of
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