Skip to content

The Road To Freedom: Anti-Slavery Activity In Greenfield

  • Programs

January 7, 2017

with Momodou Sarr and Joan Featherman

Did you know that in the 1800s, Greenfield was home to an active regional abolition group?

  • We will learn about the Franklin County Anti-Slavery Society, local Underground Railroad sites and area abolitionists.
  • We wil draw parallels between the multi-faceted strategies used in the 1800s to defeat slavery and strategies we can use now to defeat the renewal of racism and other injustices,

Links

The Road To Freedom, Anti-Slavery Activity in Greenfield, Massachusetts, 12-page booklet PDF

Video from Channel 22 News

Suggested reading

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Underground Airlines,  Ben Winters

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead  
 
Skip to content