Audacious Freedom Community Conversation
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| 5/12/2010 |
As the work progresses on the President's House site, located at 6th and Market Streets, discussions continue on how to best present the story of slavery that occurred when Geroge Washington lived there with his slaves.
Join Christ Church Rector Tim Safford and Christ Church historian and senior guide Neil Ronk as they present how Christ Church has incorporated its African American history into its interpretation program.
Christ Church averages 170,000 visitors a year-many of them school children. In the presentations, guides relate the story of Pioneer Alice and Absalom Jones and their connection to Christ Church.
In 2008, Sarah's Story was developed to present to our visitors. It is an interpretative drama appropriate for all audiences featuring "Sarah," a costumed interpreter who relates her daily life as an enslaved person in colonial Philadelphia, along with a guide who provides perspective and historical overview.
This event takes place on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM at Christ Church, located at 2nd and Market Streets in Philadelphia. It is free and open to the public.
This community conversation about slavery/freedom/race is hosted in colloaboration with the African American Museum in Philadelphia. These conversatons propose to question the issue of race and freedom in early Philadelphia and explore how it impacted the free black and enslaved communities in the 18th and 19th centuries. VOICES is intended to connect a broad public to the Audacious Freedom exhibition and to provide a platform for everyday people to talk about the struggle for freedom, give voice to issues that affected African American community, especially those which continue to impact their lives today.
Supported in part by a grant fromm the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
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