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Eleutherian
College on conference agenda
Eleutherian College will
be one of the topics discussed next week at an Underground
Railroad conference for the public, scholars and researchers.
The fourth annual Borderlands Underground Railroad Conference will
be June 9-11 at Northern Kentucky University. The conference
sponsors are the university’s Institute for Freedom Studies and
the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center across the river
in Cincinnati.
The registration fee is $35 and includes a reception and keynote
address Friday; conference sessions, lunch and a keynote address
Saturday; and a ticket to tour the National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center on Sunday.
To register, go to www.nku.edu/~freedom or call (859) 572-5600.
One of the Saturday sessions will be a half-hour presentation by
Mark A. Furnish, a doctoral student at Purdue University, who will
speak on “Indiana’s Eleutherian College: Biracial Coeducation
of Slavery’s Borderland.”
Eleutherian College, whose main classroom building still stands on
State Road 250 in Lancaster, was open to blacks and women as well
as white men before the Civil War. The college was part of the
Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped escaped
slaves reach freedom. Many now label the Underground Railroad
“the first campaign for social change in American history,”
the Freedom Center says.
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