The Owen Sound Emancipation Celebration Festival will be celebrating their 145th concurrent picnic/festival this summer - August 3 - August 5 in Owen Sound, Ontario.
"Individuals interested in: history, family, culture and community have been congregating every August 1st weekend since 1862 in Owen Sound, "the most northerly retreat of the Underground Railroad journey in Canada". Descendants of blacks, who came via the Underground Railroad to settle in freedom, gather to reminisce and enjoy a time of fellowship
This is an especial ceremony for all of us as we celebrate family, fellowship, oral history, documented history, community, culture and roots of our amazing integrated community. Meet historians, educators, diplomats, relatives and contributors to the freedom struggle. Enjoy the integration of congeniality, pride, inquiry, knowledge, spirit and future.
This event is acknowledged as being the longest consistently running in Grey and Bruce counties .
situated within the valley of Owen Sound resplendid with charm, warmth, camaraderie and purpose, home of the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular and the Owen Sound Rainbow Derby, Tom Thompson, Billy Bishop, and John "Daddy" Hall (The first Black person to settle at Sydenham Village near
Owen Sound who arrived about 1843.Owen Sound's First Town Crier).
"Owen Sound" : neighbours to Hanover's Tommy Burns who fought Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope and renowned for how he stood up against prejudice which deterred his notoriety. "Owen Sound" - neighbours to Markdale's William Luke who preached at the Methodist Church (in Markdale) before leaving for Alabama to work with newly freed slaves there. In 1870, the Ku Klux Klan lynched him and six of his black students..William Luke was the only white person lynched in the Underground Railroad Movement.
The Owen Sound Emancipation Celebration Picnic commemorates the British Commonwealth Emancipation Act of August 1, 1834. Owen Sound and area residents have been celebrating this occasion since 1862 and have incorporated celebrating the United States Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863. This year we will be paying homage to 200th anniversary of the March 25, 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Politician Swears on Mendi Bible
Bible with ties to slave ship will be used for oath
By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff | January 3, 2007
One hundred and sixty-six years ago, a prominent Massachusetts politician, former President John Quincy Adams , played a role in black history by persuading the US Supreme Court to free a group of African captives who had staged a mutiny on the slave ship Amistad.
Tomorrow, when Deval Patrick takes his place in the history books as the state's first African-American governor, he will offer a symbolic nod to that storied past, taking the oath of office on a leather-bound Bible given by the freed captives to the former president.
"This Bible is a quintessential American symbol, one of democracy, and the inner workings of freedom, and our system of laws, and the abolitionist movement, and it represents a real victory for Africans who stood up for themselves," said Beverly A. Morgan-Welch , the executive director of the Museum of African American History and a cochair of Patrick's inauguration committee.
"The Bible was given to Adams by these freed African men because they so appreciated that Adams was not just their legal advocate, but he believed in their freedom, and here we are, how many years later, and we are installing Massachusetts' first African-American governor," Morgan-Welch said.
The book, named the Mendi Bible for the men's tribe, is part of the collection of the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy.
On an inside page, the Mendi men wrote a note of thanks to Adams, saying the Bible "has been a precious book to us in prison, and we love to read it now we are free."
Adams sent the men a letter back, saying, "It was from that book that I learnt to espouse your cause when you were in trouble."
Four years ago, Mitt Romney took the oath of office using a family Bible signed by his father, George Romney, a former governor of Michigan.
By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff | January 3, 2007
One hundred and sixty-six years ago, a prominent Massachusetts politician, former President John Quincy Adams , played a role in black history by persuading the US Supreme Court to free a group of African captives who had staged a mutiny on the slave ship Amistad.
Tomorrow, when Deval Patrick takes his place in the history books as the state's first African-American governor, he will offer a symbolic nod to that storied past, taking the oath of office on a leather-bound Bible given by the freed captives to the former president.
"This Bible is a quintessential American symbol, one of democracy, and the inner workings of freedom, and our system of laws, and the abolitionist movement, and it represents a real victory for Africans who stood up for themselves," said Beverly A. Morgan-Welch , the executive director of the Museum of African American History and a cochair of Patrick's inauguration committee.
"The Bible was given to Adams by these freed African men because they so appreciated that Adams was not just their legal advocate, but he believed in their freedom, and here we are, how many years later, and we are installing Massachusetts' first African-American governor," Morgan-Welch said.
The book, named the Mendi Bible for the men's tribe, is part of the collection of the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy.
On an inside page, the Mendi men wrote a note of thanks to Adams, saying the Bible "has been a precious book to us in prison, and we love to read it now we are free."
Adams sent the men a letter back, saying, "It was from that book that I learnt to espouse your cause when you were in trouble."
Four years ago, Mitt Romney took the oath of office using a family Bible signed by his father, George Romney, a former governor of Michigan.
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