Freedom for Whom? Events
This expansive programming is designed to generate conversations across campus and within the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community, provide educational opportunities, and engage our colleagues, students, and neighbors in both the historical and modern debates around freedom, all within the spirit of the Revolutionary Age.
Upcoming Events
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September 10: Becoming Harriet Tubman
Natalie Daise, former host of Nick Jr.'s Gullah Gullah Island, award-winning artist, and storyteller presents "Becoming Harriet Tubman," a one-person, five-character show that shares the story of Araminta Ross's evolution into Harriet Tubman.
Location: Gibbes Museum of Art
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 10 from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $30 Members | $40 Non-Members | $20 Student
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Sept 19: Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Self-emancipation along the Underground Railroad was not entirely by overland routes. What has been largely overlooked by historians is the great number of enslaved persons who made their way to freedom using coastal water routes along the Atlantic seaboard.Join scholars (Professor of History; University of Pittsburgh), (Associate Professor of History; University of Tennessee) and (Professor of History; University of Massachusetts) in conversation to learn more about this hidden history. Introduction by Dr. Shannon Eaves (Associate Professor of History; ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø).
An exhibit viewing and reception will follow the conversation.
The event is free & open to all. Registration is required.
Location: Addlestone Library, 3rd Floor outside Special Collections
Date & Time: Friday, September 19 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free, registration required.
Sponsored by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program.
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Sept 24: Picturing Resistance: The Evolving Imagery of Harriet Tubman
How can art shape the face of resistance? And what separates the mythology of a movement from the individuals who lived it? Inspired by the exhibition Picturing Freedom, this conversation will focus on the evolution of the imagery and language used to describe Harriet Tubman. Guests include Janell Hobson, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany and Terry Plater, artist featured in the exhibition.
Location: Gibbes Museum of Art
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free, Advanced Registration is Required
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Oct 4: Book Club Event, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid
Inspired by Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid we will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black.
Location: Gibbes Museum of Art
Date & Time: Saturday, October 4 from 10:30-12:00.
Tickets: Free, Advanced Registration is Required
Please note: This is a traditional book club style conversation and the author will NOT be attending.
About Combee
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies, children's books, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter: during the Civil War, hired by the Union Army, she ventured into the heart of slave territory--Beaufort, South Carolina--to live, work, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. -
October 30: Huguenots in Early South Carolina
Huguenots in Early South Carolina: A Conversation between Professor Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (University of Paris VII) and Professor Owen Stanwood (Boston College).
Location: SNES 129 (MACE Auditorium, CofC Campus)
Date & Time: Thursday, October 30 at 4:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Sponsored by: CLAW, Huguenot Society of South Carolina, SCHS, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Library Society
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November 16: Sunday Brunch with Adam Jortner
Join the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina for Sunday brunch with Adam Jortner: "Oy Vey, King George! American Jews and the Revolution."
Location: Jewish Studies Center, Arnold Hall (JSC 100). 96 Wentworth St.
Date & Time: Sunday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m.
Tickets: Free, .
Adam Jortner is the Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History at Auburn University. He specializes in the history of religion in the American Revolution and the early nation, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, patriotism and piety, theology, and new religious traditions. Jortner will discuss his book A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom with Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture Director Ashley Walters.