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Freeborn Furniture Maker Thomas Day Symposium to be Presented in Yancey ville November 10-11 A two-day symposium, "Navigating the Labyrinth cf Color: The World of Thomas D5»y," will be presented on No vember 10 and 11 in Yanceyville. This symposium will bring together academic scholars, elementary and secondary school teachers and other interested indi viduals to explore together the world of free African Americans in the antebel lum upper South, through the len^. of one particular individual: Thomas Day. The symposium is being hosted by the Thomas Day Education Project, an Afri can American history education and re search project based in Durham, in part nership with the Caswell County Histori cal Association. All presentations and discussions are open to the public free of charge but pre-registration is required. Thomas Day was a freeborn successful cabinetmaker (furniture maker) who lived and worked in southeast Virginia and the north central Piedmont of North Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. He defies easy categorizations. He was a man of color, but also one the wealthiest businessmen in Casw'eli County,' North Carolina. He owned slaves, yet his children were sent north to “70,o6o + 1 reasons why I’m speaking up about Sickle Cell Disease.” Id There are thousands of people like myself living n c:' lives until the pain of sickle cell disease pays an um, -X dtable ■ -isit. The cycle will continue until a cure is too dtcr, isf: if red blood cell disorder, v/hich too few >■:, war, 7. ar.=,' paitm:. Ainehc . ''jt. I dkdn't know I had it until I inherited by children from \pproximafely 70,000 There is a simple test that can detect sickle cell trait, which is prevalent among people of African, Southern European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry. Do the proper thing, get tested and make informed decisions about parenthood. Please support the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and its Member Organizations. Help them, help us "Break the Sickle Cycle. “ ® -800-421-6453 ^ ET’S BREAK THE SICKLE C niitniiati. “Sreak Zhr Sktk i’yelrl be educated at a school with abolitionist sympathies.. His life and the lives of his brother, wife, children, and ancestors, all delineate the maze of obstacles and choices, political realities and personal aspirations navigated by all free persons of African descent at that time. Many fine examples of his furniture and ar chitectural decoration remain as a testa ment to his artistry and the recognition he received in his day in museums and private homes primarily in North Caro lina and Virginia but also across the United Stales. Internationally recognized scholar. Dr. Ira Berlin from the University of Maryland, will present the keynote ad dress "Thomas Day and the Free Black Experience in the Antebellum South" in the historic courtroom on Friday eve ning. Two of Dr. Berlin's many books. Slaves' Without Masters,and Many Ihou- sands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, exemplify his place as one of our most respected and significant scholars in the history of free and enslaved blacks. "Thomas Day, American" a visual presentation by Thomas Day Education Project (TDEP) Executive Director Laurel Sneed will open the symposium and highlight major events in the life of Thomas Day as discovered in the ex tensive research conducted by the pro ject. Nationally known scholars in the field of African American history and art will lead the exploration of the world of Thomas Day. Scholars and their topics include: • Dr. Juanita Holland, Independent Scholar. University Park. Md. - "Cultural Emancipation: The Free Black Artist and Artisan, North and South" • Dr. Suzanne Lebsock, Professor of History at the University of Washington- Seattle - "Free Women of Color in the Upper South - • Mr. Jon Prown. Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wise. - "Thomas Day's Furniture and the Prob lem of Inteiprciation" • Dr. Marie Tyler-McGraw'. National Park Service. Washington. D.C. - "Race after the Revolution" • Dr. Richard Powell, Professor of An and Art History at Duke University - "Symposium Overview" Other presentations will include: • Janie Leigh Carter, Independent Scholar, Providence, N.C. - "The Other Day: John, Brother of Thomas" • Dr. G.C. Waldrep, Independent Scholar, Halifax, Va. - "Choosing Worlds; Thomas Day, His Neighbors, and Mixed-Race Identity in the Old South" Together with Thomas Day Fellows, a group of eighteen dedicated elementary and secondary North Carolina school teachers who are engaged in a two-year course of study in African American his tory through 1865, conference participants will explore how Thomas day reflects the varying and complex ex periences of free African Americans in the nineteenth century. The series is designed and organized by the Thomas Day Education Project, a -project cd' the North Carolina Central Universitv Foundation which received a
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