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[Note: This is an informal e-mail newsletter of events of interest concerning the Underground Railroad. The information below has been summarized from various sources. Those interested in attending events may want to reconfirm with the hosting organizations times and locations.]
URR COALITION OF DELAWARE MEETING, TUESDAY,
MARCH 28, 2006
The next meeting of the Underground Railroad Coalition of
Delaware will be held on March 28, 2006 at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Conference
room at the City/County Building, Wilmington, Delaware. One item on the agenda
will be the next steps for completing the Underground Railroad Context. I
look forward to seeing you then.
[From Robin K. Bodo]
NEW PUBLICATION: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
The Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad by J. Blaine
Hudson is being published by McFarland & Company.
"From the Abolitionist Movement to the Zionville Baptist Missionary Church, this
encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the
interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for
equality and the American antislavery movement.
"Information is drawn from primary sources such as
public records, document collections, slave autobiographies and
antebellum newspapers. Entries contain pointers to related entries and
suggestions for further research.
"Appendices include information such as a geographical
listing of selected friends of the fugitive, noted Underground Railroad
sites administered by the National Parks Service, a bibliography of
slave autobiographies and selected Underground Railroad songs. A
chronology of slavery and the Underground Railroad is also included."
[from the publisher]
For further information go to:
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2459-1
ROKEBY MUSEUM, FERRISBURG, VERMONT, SUMMER 2006
The Rokeby Museum is offering a summer program on "Mothers and Others
for Peace and Justice" highlighting the role of women in 19th century
reform.
The series includes:
Take Back Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 2006, 2:00 PM
Historian Deborah Clifford opens the season with a look at Julia Ward
Howe's original idea for Mothers Day mothers as agents of peace. Join us
to learn how Mothers Day has evolved over the decades.
Yours for Humanity, Abby, Saturday, July 8, 2006, 2:00 PM
Actress Lynne McKenney Lydick in a one-woman play based on the letters
and speeches of Abby Kelley Foster. Born into an ordinary Massachusetts
farm family, Foster dedicated her life to social justice. At a time when
society demanded that women be both silent and submissive, she was
neither. Abby Kelley Foster braved harassment and ridicule to live out
her principles.
Performance under a tent on the Museum grounds. $10 adult, $5 for 12 and
younger.
Sister Societies, Sunday, September 10, 2006, 2:00 PM
Historian Beth Salerno will share her extensive research on female
anti-slavery societies of the 1830s to 1850s, showing that women were
the backbone of the movement. She uncovered more than 200 such groups in
the Northeast, including five in Vermont.
From Jane Williamson, Rokeby Museum
[email protected]
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
March 21, 2006
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