NEH Summer Seminar on the Abolitionist MovementTeachers and graduate students are invited to apply for "The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice From the Revolution to the Civil War," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar that will be held from June 20-July 16, 2010, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Directed by Richard S. Newman of the Rochester Institute of Technology, this seminar seeks to bring abolitionism alive by surveying an exciting range of scholarly literature and primary source documents on the subject. Participants will also visit several famous abolitionist sites in the Philadelphia area, including black abolitionist Richard Allen's Mother Bethel AME Church, underground railroad stations, and Gettysburg. The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Slavery and Racial Injustice From the Revolution to the Civil War |
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