Antebellum Slavery in Kentucky

Program goals – increase the awareness of antebellum enslavement in Kentucky and Southern Indiana and its impact on Africans and African Americans during the mid 1800’s.
- Author symposiums:
- Create a publishable story
- Elements of a good story
- Genealogy and documentation
- Readings and lecture
- Research and the facts
- Storytelling
- Freedom Quilt: A free verse storytelling, created and passed from one enslaved daughter to another
- The making of the Freedom Quilt: fabric art show-and-tell – short DVD
- Genealogical Search: Lecture with 30-minute DVD: In Search of My Ancestors from Kentucky to the Nigerian Slave Market, and back to Kentucky
- Kentucky Hemp Farming: the history of hemp farming in Kentucky
- Slave Life on the Plantation: discussion using pictures, period props, and storytelling
- Teacher’s Professional Training: Teaching the history of slaver
- Underground Railroad Tour: Northern Kentucky and Southern Indiana – 1-5 days