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A Chesapeake Journey—From Slavery to Freedom
July 8-14, 2007
A group of students and teachers embarked on a journey around the Chesapeake Bay and through more than 250 years of the American past. Read the participants' detailed travel blog of their experiences.
The journey was organized and led by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the Washington's Legacy Project, and funded thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Chesapeake Journey Co-Director Adam Goodheart introduces the program at the Custom House in Chestertown and tells the story of Thomas Ringgold, a revolutionary patriot who also ran his slave-trading business from the Custom House.
The little known site of Frederick Douglass's birth place along Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline County. In the woods at right is the ravine known as Kentucky, along which Douglass's grandmother's cabin stood.
Wye House, home to 13 generations of the Lloyd Family in Talbot County, where Frederick Douglass lived as a boy between 1824 and 1826.
The a cappella group Sombarkin (L-R: Lester Barrett Jr., Karen Sommerville, Jerome McKinney) perform slave spirituals at the site of the Wye Slave Quarters.
The group on steps of the Easton courthouse where Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech in 1878.
Dr. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and leading authority on the history of slavery in America delivers the keynote address to the group in Easton.
Adam leads group at Point Comfort.
Point Comfort - site of first slave arrival.
Group at Fort Monroe.
Fort Monroe (Point Comfort's modern name).
Lesson planning workshop.
The Group outside the Kings Tavern.
Educators in a living tableau.
Learning about tobacco production in Williamsburg.
A re-created slave cabin.
Role-playing inside the Peyton Randolph House.
Colonel Washington with Anna Green and Jasper Colt.
The rhythms of Dr. Rex Ellis.
Beginning our day's journey by boat.
Dr. Stephen Whitman.
Jill tells about the Pearl Incident.
Correctional system in olde St. Mary's City.
Crabs in St. Mary's City.
Monica tastes the buffet.
Dr. Martin Sullivan and St. Mary's City statehouse.
Mathias de Sousa monument.
Chesapeake Journey educators with the Dove replica.
Sotterley Plantation mansion.
Hands-on history at Sotterley Plantation.
Original slave cabin at Sotterley Plantation.
Jasper learns a trade at Sotterley Plantation.
The Lyceum of Alexandria.
Author Dr. Henry Wiencek.
Touring Mt. Vernon.
Mt. Vernon's slave quarters.
Mt. Vernon's stables.
Judge Rohulamin Quander at Mt. Vernon's slave burial ground.
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