Join Muskingum County History for their second annual Underground Railroad symposium! This is an all-day event with four fantastic speakers. Lunch will be provided for the first 50 registrants. Many thanks to John McIntire Library for hosting!
The event is free to attend, but registration is encouraged at https://events.muskingumlibrary.org/event/5371248
The John McIntire Library is located at 220 N 5th Street in Zanesville, OH.
Schedule
8:45 to 9:30 AM: Doors open to sign in, coffee, donuts, and mingling.
9:30 to 10:30 AM: Kristina Estle, Traveling the Underground Railroad in Belmont County
10:45 to 11:45 AM: Tom Milhollan, The John Davis Case and the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
12:00 to 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:15 to 2:15 PM: Scott Britton, First Stop on their Journey to Freedom
2:30 to 3:30 PM: Margaret Brennan, Slavery in Wheeling: From the Auction Block to Freedom by the Underground Railroad
About the speakers:
Kristina Estelle is the Director/Curator at The Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, Ohio and serves as Chairman of Education for the Belmont County NAACP. She has a Bachelor's Degree in History from Ohio University and a Master's Degree in Public History/Museum Studies from Southern New Hampshire University.
Tom Milhollan is the Operations & Development Coordinator for the Washington County (PA) Historical Society where he leads the study of the Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad. The Historical Society operates The LeMayne House in Washington, Pennsylvania. The case of John Davis will be traced from the time he sought his freedom and obtained his freedom in Pennsylvania to when he was kidnapped in 1788 in Washington County and returned to slavery on a Virginia plantation to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
Scott Britton is a graduate of Penn State University. He is a Past President of the Washington County Historical Society and current histroian for the Marietta Chapter of the Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution. He is also the Executive Director of The Castle in Marietta. Mr. Britton will speak on Marietta and Washington County's involvement with the Underground Railroad.
Margaret Brennan is from Wheeling, West Virginia. She has an M.A. in History and a Certificate in Public History from West Virginia University.