Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists in the Antebellum Upper South Chapel Hill, NC: June 16–21 or June 23–28 Locations: The Union Tavern, home and shop of the celebrated free black cabinetmaker Thomas Day (1801–ca. 1861); the Burwell School, girlhood home of the formerly enslaved dressmaker–turned–Lincoln White House–insider Elizabeth Keckly (1817–1907); and Stagville, a major 19th-century tobacco plantation with intact slave quarters and other slave-built structures Laurel Sneed, Apprend Foundation Information: Laurel Sneed Executive Director 4211 S. Alston Ave Durham, NC 27713 919/405-2326 lsneed@apprendfound.org http://www.craftingfreedom.org/