The Symposium is free but registration is required to attend. Online registration is closed but you may still register day-of at the location.
| Thursday, October 13, 2011 | |
| Live Oak Public Library, Pooler branch | |
| 4 p.m. | Slavery & Freedom: Storytelling with Lillian Grant-Baptiste Appropriate for ages 6 through 10. |
| Second African Baptist Church, Greene Square | |
| 6 p.m. | Welcome: Pastor C. MeGill Brown
Introduction: Tania Sammons, Curator of the Telfair’s Owens-Thomas House and Decorative Arts Choral selection by the SAB Inspirational Voices Symposium Keynote Address: “Public History and Slavery: Exploring the Owens-Thomas House, Savannah, and Rural Georgia” Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris Closing: Choral selection by the SAB Inspirational Voices |
| Reception immediately following in the Jepson Center on Telfair Square, sponsored by the Friends of the Owens-Thomas House; also opening Agents of Change: Portraits by Kenneth Martin in the Jepson Center Trustees Gallery | |
| Friday, October 14, 2011 | |
| Savannah Theatre, Chippewa Square | |
| 9 a.m. | Registration/check-in |
| 9:45 a.m. | Welcome: Vaughnette Goode-Walker, Director of Cultural Diversity for the Telfair Museums |
| 10 -11 a.m. | Slavery in Colonial GeorgiaSession Leader: Eric Hall, Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Comes to Georgia “The King of England’s Soldiers”: Armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War Era, 1778-1787 |
| 11:20 a.m.-
12:20 p.m. |
Establishing Antebellum SlaverySession Leader: Jeff Eley, Chair, Historic Preservation Dept., Savannah College of Art and Design
To “Venerate the Spot” of “Airy Visions”: Slavery and the Romantic Conception of Place in Mary Telfair’s Savannah. Slavery in Antebellum Savannah: Control and Resistance |
| 12:20-2:20 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 2:30 p.m. | Performance: “Nelson’s Visit with Lafayette“, a living history performance featuring Owens-Thomas House Interpreters, with an introduction by Paulette Thompson |
| 3:00-430 p.m. | Slave Life in Antebellum SavannahSession Leader: Barbara Fertig, Professor of History, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Laboring Slaves: Work and Workers in Antebellum Savannah Slave Housing in Antebellum Georgia ‘An’ They Never Said a Mumblin’ Word?’ Reconstructing Enslaved Life through the Owens-Thomas House |
| Live Oak Public Library, West Broad YMCA branch | |
| 4 p.m. | Slavery & Freedom: Storytelling with Lillian Grant-Baptiste Appropriate for ages 6 through 10. |
| Saturday, October 15, 2011 | |
| Savannah Theatre, Chippewa Square | |
| 9 a.m. | Registration/check-in |
| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome: Tania Sammons, Curator of the Telfair’s Owens-Thomas House and Decorative Arts |
| 9:45-10:45 a.m. | Black Freedom in Antebellum and Civil War Georgia
Session Leader: Felicia Bell, Assistant Professor of History, Savannah State University Free Black Life in Antebellum Savannah. Wartime Workers, Money-makers: Black Labor in Civil-War-Era Savannah |
| 11 a.m. -12 p.m. | The Struggle for Freedom and Equality in Post-Civil War Georgia
Session Leader: Michael Benjamin, Assistant Professor of History, Armstrong Atlantic State University “We Have Our Own Law Here”: Spinning Politics and Violence in Reconstruction Savannah Reconstructing White Redemption: African American Intellectuals in Savannah, Georgia, 1890-1920 |
| 12 p.m. | Closing comments: Ronald Bailey, Visiting Distinguished Professor -SBS, Savannah State University
Emory Shaw Campbell, President, Gullah Heritage Consulting Services |
| Live Oak Public Library, Oglethorpe Mall branch | |
| 4 p.m. | Slavery & Freedom: Storytelling with Lillian Grant-Baptiste Appropriate for ages 6 through 10. |
For more information, contact Cyndi Sommers at sommersc@telfair.org or 912-790-8880
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Slavery & Freedom: Storytelling with Lillian Grant-Baptiste
Appropriate for ages 6 through 10. The following programs will occur at various branches of the Live Oak Public Library. For more information on the branches and directions please visit their website.
Tue., Oct. 4, 4 pm – Islands branch
Wed., Oct. 5, 4 pm - Hinesville branch
Thur., Oct. 6 @ 4:30 pm – Southwest Chatham branch
Sat., Oct. 8, 4 pm – Carnegie branch (special all ages presentation!)
Tue., Oct. 11, 11 am – Bull St. branch
Wed., Oct. 12, 4:30 pm – Rincon branch
Thur., Oct.13 , 4 pm – Pooler branch
Fri.., Oct. 14, 4 pm – West Broad YMCA branch
Sat., Oct. 15, 4 pm -Oglethorpe Mall branch
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 3pm, Southwest Chatham Library, Book Discussion of the award-winning novel “Jubilee” by Margaret Walker. A Free copy of the novel will be given to the first 25 readers that reserve a space in the discussion group. Email Constance Coleman colemanc@liveoakpl.org for a space and free copy of the book.
