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A Community Reading of Frederick Douglass

2017 Past News & Events, Douglass

By Isabelle Hallé / news@seacoastonline.com PORTSMOUTH — “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn,” Kevin Wade Mitchell said, reading the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass to a full house at Strawbery Banke Museum Monday. In an event sponsored by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and the museum, community members gathered to take part in reading Frederick Douglass’ famous speech: “What to the Slaves is the Fourth of July?” Douglass, an escaped…

Juneteenth Celebrated at African Burying Ground

2017 Past News & Events, Juneteenth

By Karen Dandurant news@seacoastonline.com/Posted Jun 17, 2017 PORTSMOUTH — As part of day-long activities Saturday celebrating Juneteenth and honoring the lives of Portsmouth slaves, a remembrance ceremony was held at the African Burying Ground Memorial Park on Chestnut Street. Juneteenth is a celebration in memory of the day slavery was abolished in a small Texas town, three months after the Civil War, on June 19, 1865. The local remembrance ceremony honored ancestors by talking about their lives. The first event was held…

2017 Juneteenth Celebration

2017 Past News & Events, Juneteenth

A Juneteenth Celebration The Art of Activism, Cultural Resistance & Everyday Protest Saturday, June 17, 11am-3pm & 7pm– 8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street. Join us for ART, FOOD, MUSIC, DIALOGUE & SONG. This year’s celebration features African American artists Joel Gill and Richard Hanes, vocalist Rev. Robert Thompson, actors Sandi Clark and Kevin Wade Mitchell and Drummer Robert Bellinger ….

2017 Spring Symposium Mapping the Underground Railroad

2017 Past News & Events, Spring Symposium

Mapping the Underground Railroad: The Black Past Remembered and Reclaimed in New Hampshire The North has historically basked in its participation in the Underground Railroad leaving untold, till recent times, its complicity in the slave trade. The keynote address and panel discussion for this symposium will highlight stories of some Black New Hampshire heroes and present information on the state’s participation in the Atlantic slave trade and what became known as the Underground Railroad. Archaeologist Dr. Cheryl LaRoche, our…