February is Black History Month -- support events in your community here is one in the Philadelphia metro area --visit historic Stenton if you are in the area ! -best, kw
Freedom Bound: African American Women in 18th- and 19th-Century Philadelphia
This Saturday, February 18, 1:00 pm
Presented by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The University of Delaware and The Library Company of Philadelphia
http://stenton.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dunbar_Freedom-Bound_Flyer.pdf
Visit Stenton on Saturday, February 18th for a lecture and discussion
examining the rocky road to emancipation experienced by the majority
of African American women in the 18th- and 19th-century urban North.
Although experiences varied according to location, age, marital
status, and wealth, African American women in Philadelphia serve as
useful symbolic representations of the hopeful possibilities of
emancipation. Tours of Stenton emphasizing service spaces on the
property will follow the talk.
Admission is free. Please call 215-329-7312 or email
programs@stenton.org">programs@stenton.org to RSVP
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an Associate Professor of History at the
University of Delaware and currently directs the Program in African
American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Armstrong
Dunbar is the author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and
Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Yale University Press, 2008). Her
current book project examines the life of Oney Judge Staines, the
enslaved servant of George and Martha Washington who escaped from the
first family while in residence in Philadelphia.
For more information about this program visit the Stenton website.
Stenton is located four blocks east of Wayne
Junction Station at 4601 N. 18th Street, the corner of
N. 18th Street and Windrim Avenue. Please call
215 - 329 - 7312 or email programs@stenton.org">programs@stenton.org for
more information. Detailed directions and map at
Stenton : http://www.stenton.org
Program Flyer: http://stenton.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dunbar_Freedom-Bound_Flyer.pdf
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Karen Weaver, MLS
Electronic Resources Statistician
Collection Management
Duquesne University, Gumberg Library
Pittsburgh PA 15282
Email: weaverk@duq.edu">weaverk@duq.edu or Gmail: (preferred) melvil4u@gmail.com">melvil4u@gmail.com
Member, ALA LHRT Library History Round Table Membership & Outreach Committee
Member, ALA COSWL Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship
Member, ALISE Assocation for Library & Information Science Education,
Membership Advisory Committee