Free and open to the public; refreshments to follow the lecture
The annual meeting of the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware is scheduled for April 27, 2015 at the Camden Friends Meeting, 122E. Camden-Wyoming Avenue, Camden. The event is from 6:30-8:30pm. The featured program is Slavery and Freedom on the Miles River Neck and the Cowgills of Delaware, presented by Emily Huebner, research associate at the Maryland State Archives. The presentation will discuss transitions from slavery to freedom in the Miles River Neck area of Talbot County, Maryland, focusing on enslaved people held on the Lloyd plantation and their establishment of the town of Unionville. The presentation will touch on resistance to slavery through the Underground Railroad and enlistment in the United States Colored Troops, along with investigating the role of the neighboring Cowgills, a Quaker family from Delaware.
Free and open to the public; refreshments to follow the lecture
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Freedom Seekers and Freedom Stealers along the Mason - Dixon LineAuthorMilt Diggins, M. ed., an independent scholar, author, public historian, and public speaker. Archives
September 2018
Categories
All
|