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.

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