Thursday, September 12, 2019
Track 1-History
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Setting the Stage
9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Keynote Address on History, Karolyn Smardz Frost
10:00a.m. to 11:00 a.m. History, Case Studies
Case Study Session A
The Cataract House and the Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls: History, Archaeology, and Transnationalism, Bill Bradberry, Chair
- Judy Wellman, The Cataract House and Its Waiters: A World-Class Hotel and a Major Underground Railroad Station.
- Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Digging for History: Cecelia Jane Reynolds and the Archaeology of the Underground Railroad in the Niagara River Borderland
- Doug Pirelli, Public Archaeology and the Underground Railroad: The Cataract House as a Case Study
Case Study Session B
Three Underground Railroads in Three Centuries
- Don Papson, Three Underground Railroads: Fugitives From Slavery; Chinese Aliens; Asylum Seekers
- Jaykob Neddo, “All but the Chinese”: Chinese Exclusion, Race, and Rhetoric in Plattsburgh, 1882-1926
- Robin Caudell, Echoes of a Past Not Past: The Chinese Underground Railroad
Case Study Session C
Native Americans and the Underground Railroad
- Darryl Omar Freeman, The First Freedom Line: The Untold Story of Native American Underground Railroad Activities (Aiding Freedom Seeking African Americans Journey to Freedom)
- Roy E. Finkenbine, Crossing Michigan, Crossing Boundaries: Lessons Found in Odawa Oral Tradition
- Diane Miller, Wyandot and Shawnee Underground Railroad Involvement
Case Study Session D
Negro Fort at Prospect Bluff, Florida
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- Rhonda Kimbrough, Archaeological Mitigation of Hurricane Damage
- Dale Cox, Primary Source Research Brought to Life
- Bill Steele, The Negro Fort: A Story of Ancestors and Descendants
Case Study Session E
Along the Canadian Border
- Jennifer De Bruin, The History of Slavery along the St. Lawrence River
- Bryan Thompson, Who’s Under That Load of Hay? The Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad in St Lawrence County
- Matthew Wilson, Bridge to Freedom: Suspension Bridge
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Small group discussion/Workshops
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Track 2-Authenticity
1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Judy Wellman and Cheryl LaRoche, Keynote Address on Authenticity
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Best Practices, Case Studies
Case Study Session A
Documenting the Underground Railroad in New York State
- Michelle Henry, The Anti-Slavery Map, Chautauqua County Region, 1836 – 1863
- Deirdre Sinnott, The 1836 Escape, Capture, and Rescue of Harry Bird and George: Woodstock, VA to Utica, NY and Canada West
- Malcolm Boston, Female Underground Railroad Conductors along the Erie Canal and in Western New York”
Case Study Session B
African American community
- Gloria Whittico, Toward a Jurisprudence of Liberation: A Case Study from the Southern Chesapeake Bay Littoral Joseph Mason: Former Slave turned Conductor in Painesville Ohio
- Lorraine McConaghy, New Research: The Black Underground Railroad Network of FREE BOY
Case Study Session C
Slavery, Sanctuary, Sacrifice: An African American Community in Rural Upstate New York Reclaims its Voice
- Peter Evans
- Marjory Perez
- Jim Wood
Case Study Session D
Ohio as Haven and Anti-Slavery Battleground
- Peter Cultice, Putnam and the Ohio Underground Railroad
- Debra Robinson, Research Adventures: Genealogy to Applied History
- Victoria Robinson, A Flight into and Out of Freedom and Back Again: Piecing Together My Ancestors’ Involvement with the UGRR
Case Study Session E
Authenticity in Documenting and Telling the Story
- Paul Stewart, Underground Railroad 101
- Larry McClellan, Three [Network to Freedom] Site Applications South of Chicago
- Richard Dana and Amy Thomas, The McCurdy Legacy
3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Small group discussion/Workshops
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Niagara Falls Dine Around