Spring Symposium

Emancipation & the 13th Amendment: The Legacy of Enslavement May 4, 2019, 9am-4pm St John’s Church, 101 Chapel Street, Portsmouth NH   Register Online The United States of America, “a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” began as a slave society. This history of enslavement has left an indelible imprint on our nation’s soul. Recent racially violent events that occurred in towns from Claremont, NH to Charlottesville, VA have put a…

Myth, Reality & Mapping the Underground Railroad An Interactive Workshop & Panel Discussion May 5, 2018, 9am-3:30pm St John’s Church, 101 Chapel Street, Portsmouth NH Few historic institutions from the black past have attracted contemporary attention more than the Underground Railroad. Tales of white abolitionists who steered escaped enslaved men, women and children through the secretive world of special codes, false walls and hide-outs in attics, barns and cellars, have sometimes distorted historical facts. Separating these facts from fiction has…