2008 Underground Railroad Conference

Dr. Gary Nash is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the Director of the National Center for History in Schools. His many publications include, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 (Harvard University Press, 1988).

Pennsylvania Quest for Freedom hosts a luncheon highlighting the state’s Underground Railroad initiative with awards, announcement of new program plans, and a keynote address from author and Founder and Executive Director of Art Sanctuary, Lorene Cary.

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julie Roy Jeffrey- "Whose Underground Railroad? Constructing the Memory of the Underground Railroad during the Gilded Age"

Dr. Julie Jeffrey is a Professor of History at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her publications include the book, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism (UNC Press, 1998), which was awarded the Choice Award for Academic Book of Excellence and honorable mention for the Frederick Douglass Prize, given by the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University). Her most recent publication is the book, Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation (UNC Press, 2008).

Keynote Speaker: Dr. John R. McKivigan- “Frederick Douglass & the Underground Railroad: Passenger, Advocate, Conductor, and Political Asylum Seeker”
Dr. John R. McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History and the editor of The Frederick Douglass Papers at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. His publications include, The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches (Cornell University Press, 1984) and Slavery, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (University of Tennessee Press, 2000).