Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists in the Antebellum Upper South

  • 16 Jun 2011
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • CHAPEL HILIL, NC

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/

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