Join a delegation of educators from Southern California as they retrace the treacherous trails followed by fugitive slaves seeking freedom in Canada in the years before the American Civil War. Relive the stories of the people who made freedom real in America as you…
- Learn about the struggles of John Price, runaway from Kentucky.
- Stand where John Parker and John Rankin, Underground Railroad Conductors in Ripley, Ohio, may have hidden him and fostered his escape across the Ohio River.
- Join in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue as they snatched him from slave catchers.
- Talk with Second Baptist Church elders in Detroit who smuggled him across the Detroit River to freedom in Canada.
Freedom at last…
How did the formerly enslaved, like John Price, begin a new life in the cold climate, without the basics of education previously denied them, and away from support of family and friends? Visit the school and settlement established by Josiah Henson, hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and that of Reverend William King in Buxton, Canada. End the experience with " Emancipation Day" celebration at Greenfield Village.
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