Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad

Join eminent historians, literary scholars, design and architectural historians, and archivists for a week-­long NEH “Landmarks of American History and Culture” workshop that will give you new insights into the compelling story of the Underground Railroad. Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will focus on the national influence of New Bedford, Massachusetts within the nineteenth-­century Abolitionist movement, the town’s unique role in the Underground Railroad, the development of its dynamic and prosperous African-­American community, and its maritime history and culture.