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October 25 – Cinderella of Belvoir: A Dream of Freedom On the Underground Railroad

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Dionne Patterson Cinderella was the wife of Abraham Brogden, a freedman who worked at plantation nearby to Belvior where Cinderella was enslaved. In December 1848, when Abraham learned…

September 27 – Conversations in the American Landscape: History, Place, and Justice

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Katie Wu and Louis P. Nelson In a moment shaped by historic national polarization and disembodied lives spent increasingly online, this book argues that historic sites — including…

August 23 – Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement in Ulster County, NY

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini Co-authored by Susan Stessin-Cohn, with Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini, Philip White and Albert Cook, the 34 historical sketches in this book present insights into the…

July 26 – In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Tom Weiner and Dr. Amilcar Shabazz This book brings to light the often-suppressed stories of those who risked everything to end enslavement. Profiling 20 Black and white men…

June 28 – In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley 1735-1831

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini In Defiance documents 607 fugitives from enslavement in the 18th and 19th-century Hudson River Valley region of New York State through the reproduction…

May 24 – Reckoning with Ancestral Sins: How I Discovered my Family’s Slaveholding Past, and What I Did About It

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Debra Bruno A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family is a story of a nearly forgotten New York history. When author…

April 26 – BIG JIM and the White Boy

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by by Marcus Kwame Anderson and David Walker Working collaboratively, Marcus Anderson and David Walker created a thrilling graphic novel reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows…

March 22 – Cold Pressed and Just Brewed Poetry and Whole Phat and Gluten Free Poetry

FreedomCon2025By ugrhMarch 6, 2025

Presented by Carol Durant Carol Durant is poet, playwright, actor, stage manager and founder, curator and host of Outliers Poetry Brunch. Carol was a featured poet at the 13th Annual…

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