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The Color in Freedom Experience–An Interactive Journey Along the Underground Railroad
The color in freedom experience workshops are designed to use arts integration and a positive, nontraditional methodology to talk about slavery. They will feature age-specific information and use the arts as a tool to engage in conversations about slavery. The workshop’s facilitators are History scholars and experts on the topic of slavery and the Underground Railroad who will utilize their decades of expertise to educate and inform the audience. Workshops will address each audience at its level.
All workshops will be held at the College of Charleston Avery Research Center, 125 Bull Street, Charleston. The workshops will take place on May 3 and 4. For more information, call Sheila Harrell-Roye: (843) 953-7613 or visit the Avery Center’s website.
Filed under: Charleston, SC, Jubilee Project, Slavery, U.S. Civil War, Upcoming Events 
Read CIty’s Paper’s Review of A Woman Called Truth
Charleston’s City Paper recently reviewed Charleston Stage’s production of A Woman Called Truth, the story of the life of Soujourner Truth. To read the full article, click here.
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Civil War historian Eric Foner to visit two campuses
Eric Foner, historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery,” will be in the Charleston area for two free public lectures.
His College of Charleston talk is part of the Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference and sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English, Department of History, Avery Research Center, African American Studies and the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust.
To view the Post and Courier‘s full article regarding Foner’s lectures, visit http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130129/PC16/130129206/1268/civil-war-historian-eric-foner-to-visit-two-campuses&source=RSS
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SC National Heritage Corridor’s SC Traveler Newsletter’s Coverage of the Jubilee Project
“The SC Traveler Newsletter,” South Carolina National Heritage Corridor’s guide to the most unique spots in South Carolina, has included coverage of the Jubilee Project in the January/February 2013 issue. To read the article, as well as other interesting information about travel sites related to African American history, click here.
Filed under: Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Emancipation, Jubilee Project, Slavery, U.S. Civil War 
Check out CLAW’s website
The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the College of Charleston was established to promote scholarship on the Lowcountry, the Atlantic World, and the connections between the two. The CLAW program’s mission is to strengthen the College’s instructional program and to promote the public understanding of the region and its place in a broader international context by fostering research that illuminates the constant contact and cultural exchange among the various Atlantic cultures, societies, and ethnicities.
To learn more about CLAW and to view an event calendar, click here.
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“Teaching the New History of Emancipation” Teachers’ Workshop
The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program was recently awarded a grant from the Humanities Council SC to help support a teachers’ workshop entitled “Teaching the New History of Emancipation.” The workshop, organized in collaboration with the After Slavery Project, will take place on Friday, February 1st from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, running concurrently with the Southern American Studies Association conference that is also happening at the College (Thursday January 31st to Saturday February 2nd). The workshop is part of the Jubilee Project commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of launching desegregation in South Carolina educational institutions. As we embark on this series of commemorative events marking some of the most important events in our history, the workshop aims to lay the foundation for an enduring collaboration among teachers, curriculum experts, heritage and cultural workers, activists, web developers, and research historians.
The keynote address at the workshop will be given by Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. One of the nation’s most prominent historians, Foner is one of only two people to have served as president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the American Historical Association (AHA), and the Society of American Historians (SAH). His most recent book, the Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as the Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize (Foner’s second).
The workshop will take place in room 227 of the Addlestone Library on the College of Charleston campus. For further information, please contact Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu; 843-953-1920.
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