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11th ANNUAL BLACK NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE Huddleston Hall, University of New Hampshire October 20 – 21st, 2017 Deadline for Submissions (August 20, 2017) THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING OF RACE: Living Through the Archives  Modern medical and social sciences have made some extraordinary advances through the exploitation of Black bodies while simultaneously allowing myths of racial inferiority to continue as justification for centuries of enslavement and political disenfranchisement. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the unethical use of Henrietta Lacks’ cells…

Walking Tour: Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

MAY 13, JUN 3, JUL 1 (INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND), AUG 5, SEP 9 Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights                                                           Sankofa Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to local the slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century,…

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Walking Tour: Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society

Walking Tour: Creating Community Liberty Flagpole, Marcy St., Portsmouth NH, United States

TOUR DATES: MAY 20, JUN 10, JUL 8, AUG 12, SEP 16 Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society  Sankofa Tour Guide: Angela Matthews Institutionalized slavery in the Americas provided immense wealth and material culture to many European immigrants and their descendants in the Americas, as Portsmouth’s house museums bear witness. This tour brings into focus an economic system dependent upon the unpaid labor of enslaved African captives and their descendants who, against the odds, created one of this country’s…

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Juneteenth Celebration

      A Juneteenth Celebration Celebrating the Art of Activism, Cultural Resistance & Everyday Protest Saturday, June 17, 11am-3pm & 7pm– 8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street | Portsmouth, NH 03801 ART, MUSIC, DIALOGUE & SONG  Cultural resistance is the broad use of arts, literature, and traditional practices to challenge unjust or oppressive systems within the context of nonviolent actions, campaigns and movements. For this year’s celebration, local African American artists Joel Gill and Richard Hanes will share stories…

Walking Tour: Port of Entry

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

TOUR DATES: JUN 24, JUL 22 Port of Entry: Boys and Girls for Sale Sankofa Tour Guide:  JerriAnne Boggis Local newspapers carried merchants’ ads for ships returning to the port of Portsmouth laden with cargo from trade ports on the West Coast of Africa, the West Indies and the middle Atlantic coastal cities of Colonial America. Visit local wharves and auction sites related to the Atlantic Slave Trade, where a captive could be exchanged for “cash or good lumber” to…

$20

Walking Tour: Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

MAY 13, JUN 3, JUL 1 (INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND), AUG 5, SEP 9 Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights                                                           Sankofa Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to local the slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century,…

$20

Reading Frederick Douglass

Strawbery Banke Museum 14 Hancock Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

A public reading of one of the 19th century’s most famous speeches will take place at noon on July 3rd at the Strawbery Banke Museum Visitor’s Center in Portsmouth. “What to the Slaves is the Fourth of July?” asked Frederick Douglass in 1852. Douglass, one of our nation’s greatest orators and abolitionists, was asked to speak at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In his provocative speech, Douglass said, “This Fourth of July is yours, not…

Walking Tour: Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

TOUR DATES: MAY 20, JUN 10, JUL 8, AUG 12, SEP 16 Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society  Sankofa Tour Guide: Angela Matthews Institutionalized slavery in the Americas provided immense wealth and material culture to many European immigrants and their descendants in the Americas, as Portsmouth’s house museums bear witness. This tour brings into focus an economic system dependent upon the unpaid labor of enslaved African captives and their descendants who, against the odds, created one of this country’s…

$20

Walking Tour: Out of the Shadows

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

TOUR DATES: JUL 15, AUG 26, SEP 16, SEP 23 Out of the Shadows: Enslavement and Emancipation Sankofa Tour Guide: Kevin Mitchell Daily life for enslaved children and adults in New England was variable according to the occupations of their owners and the changing seasons of the year. Captives became taxable property with few human rights, yet each individual was endowed with a particular range of abilities and talents, with different experiences and opportunities shaping their lives before, during and…

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