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The Seventh Annual OhioUnderground Railroad Summit
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The Historic
LaFayette Hotel
101 Front Street Marietta, OH 45750
1-800-331-9336
www.lafayettehotel.com
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Henry R. & Sandra Burke |
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Ada & Alvin Adams |
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Ann Cramer |
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Connie Quarles |
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Cathy Nelson |
| 3:00pm - 6:00pm | Registration/Check-In |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Information round-up Hospitality & Refreshments |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm | Performance of the "Escape of Jane" at the Mid-Ohio Valley Players |
| 7:15am - 8:30am | Registration/Check-In Breakfast Buffet |
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| 8:30am - 9:00am | Summit Opening -
FOFS President Cathy D. Nelson City Welcome - Marietta Mayor Joe Mathews and local dignitaries |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | Session
One “Preservation of Early African American History and the Underground Railroad in the Eastern Region of The U.S. Forest Service” Forest Archeologists Ann Cramer, Angie Krieger and Mary McCorvie |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am | Session
Two “The Underground Railroad in the Upper Ohio Valley and West Virginia” Henry R. Burke, Local Historian and SE Regional Coordinator and Sandra Moats Burke |
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| 11:00am - 11:45am | Coffee Break/Visit vendors and
exhibits Official Summit Book Vendor - Sugden Book Store |
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| 11:45am - 12:00pm | Pick up box lunch - board tour bus | ||||||
| 12:00pm - 4:00pm | Underground Railroad Bus
Tour Local sites and Henderson Hall Plantation, Williamstown, WVA Led by Henry R. Burke |
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| 4:00pm - 5:45pm | Break | ||||||
| 5:45pm - 6:00pm | Board Valley Gem Riverboat for cruise and dinner | ||||||
| 6:00pm - 9:00pm | Dinner and Awards Program
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| 8:30am - 10:30am | Breakfast Friends of Freedom Society Annual Meeting (members only) |
| 11:00am-11:45am | Underground Railroad Marker Dedication Program |
| 12:00pm | Summit adjourns / Check-out |
This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Charles L. Blockson, internationally renowned bibliophile, lecturer, genealogist, and scholar on the Underground Railroad, and curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American collection, containing over 150,000 books, documents, and photographs. Dr. Blockson has received countless awards, and is the author of ten books, including The Underground: First Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North; The Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad, and the much celebrated Underground Railroad cover story, National Geographic, 1984.
Forest Archeologists, Ann Cramer, Angie Krieger and Mary
McCorvie
“Preservation of Early African American History and
the Underground Railroad in the Eastern Region of The U.S. Forest Service”
The Wayne (Ohio), Shawnee (Illinois), and Hoosier (Indiana) National Forests have worked for the past several years to research and identify Early African American heritage resources within their jurisdictions, including the archaeological remains of Under-ground Railroad settlements on Forest Lands. Together, the three Forests have the potential to tell an important part of the story of the quest for freedom from an archaeological viewpoint.
Henry R. Burke and Sandra Moats
Burke
“The Underground Railroad in the Upper Ohio Valley”
Mr. Burke will focus on the people, places and events concerning the Underground Railroad in southeastern Ohio, specifically the details surrounding Ephraim Cutler’s vote at the Ohio Constitutional Convention, that vetoed slavery. He will also discuss conductors on the Underground Railroad in southeastern Ohio with emphasis on specific escapes.
Mrs. Burke will discuss abolitionist colonies in West Virginia (Wood, Pleasants, Ritchie and Doddridge counties), abolitionist newspapers published in West Virginia and with emphasis on acts of violence against abolitionists including murders of people because of their work as conductors.
The Friends of Freedom Society has been awarded the Chief's Volunteers Program Award from the USDA - Forest Service. This award honors the contributions that the Friends of Freedom Society have made towards the development of the Wayne National Forest's Underground Railroad Preservation Initiative.
This award will be presented to the Friends of Freedom Society at the dinner and awards banquet.
David Putnam Jr. (1808-1892) and the Underground Railroad
Putnam was a relative of Brig. Gen. Rufus Putnam, who led the party of settlers who came down the Ohio River in 1788 and established the first settlement (under the government of the United States) in the Northwest Territory.
Putnam was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and leader of the abolitionist movement at Marietta. He hid fugitive slaves at numerous locations including his home, which stood at this location. The house was demolished in 1950, in construction of Ohio Route 7.
Putnam began his crusade against slavery as a teenager. He was equally comfortable settling disputes with diplomacy or bare knuckles. In 1847, Putnam was sued by Virginia plantation owner George Washington Henderson for loss of nine slaves. Henderson claimed Putnam had influenced the slaves to run away from his Wood County plantation, Henderson Hall. Putnam was defended by Salmon P. Chase, an abolitionist attorney of Cincinnati. Chase was later the Governor of Ohio and went on to become Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Henderson’s case against Putnam in the U.S. District Court in Columbus was dismissed in 1852. A manuscript documenting the case is part of the archives at Dawes Memorial Library at Marietta College.
Putnam lived to celebrate success of abolitionist movement. He lived to see slavery abolished.
At this year's summit, the beautiful Underground Railroad prints of Janice Huse will be available for you to purchase. Please visit her catalog at http://JaniceHuse.com or you can go directly to her Underground Railroad prints at http://janicehuse.com/undergro.htm
Please contact us with any questions or comments.
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