Our group of public humanities scholars and practitioners will examine this theme with a care for what it means to leverage recent scholarship, while also doing this work within public history spaces. It considers the social, economic, political, and intellectual worlds of African Americans in their quest to live out the full meaning of freedom. The program pays attention to nuances and various ways that geography and ecology shaped the idea of black freedom. In so doing, presenters also will foreground the important place that shifting methodologies play in this discussion. The second part of the discussion will take place at the NCPH Annual Meeting. Sponsored by the National Park Service.

Facilitator: Sylvea Hollis, Montgomery College
Participants: Yveline Alexis, Oberlin College
Ista Clarke, Charleston County Parks Department
Maya Davis, Riversdale House Museum
Marcus Nevius, University of Missouri