Weekly Schedule
Week One: July 14 - 19, 2013
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Workshop Weekly Schedule
Week One July 14 – July 19, 2013
Sunday July 14, 2013
Afternoon Participants arrive at the Fairfield Inn, New Bedford, MA
5-6 PM Registration
6:30 – 9:30 PM
EveningWelcome and summer scholar introductions. General orientation to Sailing to Freedom, University of MA, Downtown New Bedford and the South Coast region.
Dr. Timothy Walker, Project Director
Lee Blake, Project Administrator
Light refreshments
Film and Discussion: Traces of the Trade
Monday July 15, 2013 – New Bedford National Whaling Historical Park
9 – 12:30 Film and discussion: The City that Lit the World
MorningOverview of the Underground Railroad
Kate Clifford Larsen, Simmons College
New Bedford: The Fugitive’s Gibraltar
Abolitionism and Escaping Slaves in New Bedford
Kathryn Grover, Historian
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-5 PM
AfternoonBlack Seamen: A Historic Legacy
Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire
Underground Railroad Walking Tour
Kathryn Grover and Lee Blake
5:30-7 PM Dinner with Summer Scholars
Tuesday July 16, 2013 – New Bedford Whaling Museum
9 – 12:30Overview of New Bedford Waterfront Trades
Tim Walker, UMD History Department
New Bedford’s African American Community
Demographics and Employment Areas
Len Travers, UMD History Department
12:30- 1:30PM Lunch
1:30 – 3:15 New Bedford, Abolitionism, and Frederick Douglass
John Stauffer, Harvard University
3:15 – 5 Split into two Groups:
Group A:
New Bedford Whaling Museum Collections
Kendall Library
Michael Dyer, Maritime Curator
Group B:
Waterfront Walking Tour
National Park Rangers
5 – 7 PM Dinner break
7 – 8:30 PM Evening Focus chose one activity
Evening A - Film and discussion: Prince of Slaves
B - Creating Computer Presentations for classroom Usage
Wednesday July 17, 2013 Boston, MA
Film on bus: William Still and the Underground Railroad
8 – 5 PM
MorningField Trip to Boston
Boston National Historical Park
Boston African American National Historic Site
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston Freedom Trail Walking Tour
6:30 – 8 PM
Music of the Underground Railroad – Kim and Reggie Harris
Rotch Jones Duff House Museum
Thursday July 18, 2013 – New Bedford Public Library
9 – 10:30 Writing History
Kit Dunlap, UMASS Buzzards Bay Writing Center
11:00 – 12:30 The Coastal Trades and Underground Railroad Routes
David Cecelski, Historian
12:30 – 1:30PM Lunch Social sponsored – New Bedford Friends Meeting House
1:30- 3:00 Resources for Teaching Underground Railroad Slave Narratives
Laurie Robertson-Lorant
3:15 – 5 Split into two Groups:
Group A:
New Bedford Whaling Museum Collections
Kendall Library
Michael Dyer, Maritime Curator
Group B:
Waterfront Walking Tour
National Park Rangers
5 – 6:30 PM Dinner break
6:30 – 8 PMVoices of Black Abolitionists: In Prose, Poetry and Song
Everett Hoagland and Candida Rose
Artworks!
Friday July 19, 2013
9 – 10:30 AM Gendered Resistance: Women’s Resistance to Enslavement
Delores Walters, University of Rhode Island
10:30 – 12 Teaching the Underground Railroad
Primary Sources and Curriculum Development
Guidelines for Classroom Projects
Jessica Ross and Polly Zajac
12 - 1 PM Lunch
1 – 3:30 PM Classroom Projects and Presentations
Wrap up Discussion and program evaluations
Tim Walker
