NEWS AND EVENTS
February 2008: Black History Month
QUEST FOR FREEDOM WORKSHOP
Slavery Workshop with Gwen Ragsdale, The Ragsdale Slavery Collection. Objects from "Lest We Forget" The Black Holocaust Traveling Museum, a compelling collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia will be presented. The collection contains authentic slave shackles, chains, whips, branding irons and other items that were used to restrain and/or punish enslaved African Americans. Ages: All Ages.
Presenter: Gwen Ragsdale
Date: February 3, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Admission: $7.00
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LEGACY SERIES
Gallery Talk: The Underground Railroad at Belmont Mansion (Part I)
Contained within the walls of the historic Belmont Mansion is a timeless story of revolution and determination. Did you know Judge Richard Peters, the owner of Belmont Mansion, was James Forten's Legal Advisor and the first non-Quaker member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery? Discover Belmont's Abolition and Underground Railroad history.
Presenter: Audrey Johnson Thornton, President, American Women's Heritage Society at Belmont Mansion
Date: February 16, 2008
Time: l:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Admission: $7.00
QUEST FOR FREEDOM WORKSHOP
Slavery and Underground Railroad Research at the National Archives. This workshop will explore how you can conduct Underground Railroad and slavery research at the National Archives, and how the papers of Judge Richard Peters reveals his abolitionist and anti-slavery activities.
Presenter: Leslie Simon, Director, National Archives, Philadelphia, PA
Date: February 23, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Admission: FREE
Note: The Underground Railroad Legacy Series is presented by the American Women's Heritage Society Underground Railroad Museum at Historic Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park with generous funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and other funding sources.
The Underground Railroad Legacy Series explores issues of slavery and freedom, and Underground Railroad history. This series of lectures and public conversations seek to preserve and interpret the legacy of courage, determination, and perseverance as exemplified by the enslaved who freed themselves and those who helped others become free. It preserves the memory and deeds of freedom fighters such as Harriet Tubman, William and Ellen Craft, Henry Box Brown, William Still, Judge Richard Peters and his son Richard Peters, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and many other people and places too numerous to list here.
For More Info Call: 215-878-8844
www.belmontmansion.org
Belmont Mansion is a partner of the National Park Service Network to Freedom Program; NURFC Freedom Station, and Quest for Freedom.
All Programs will be held at: Belmont Mansion, 2000 Belmont Mansion Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA
