Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

FAIN: FV-50341-12

Colgate University (Hamilton, NY 13346-1338)
Graham Russell Hodges (Project Director: March 2012 to November 2014)

A two-week seminar for sixteen school teachers to study the history of the Underground Railroad and abolitionism.

A Two-Week Summer Seminar for teachers on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad to be held at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, from July 8-July 19, 2013. The proposed seminar will provide to sixteen middle and high school teachers lectures, discussions by some of the foremost scholars in the field, supply ample secondary readings and primary texts, and offer films and field trips to sites relevant to the institute’s purpose. Graham Russell Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana Studies at Colgate will organize and direct the institute