The Portland Freedom Trail, the first project of the Maine Freedom Trails, Inc, is a permanent walking trail of thirteen marked sites throughout the Portland peninsula that help tell the story of the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement.

Registration

Session #1: Re-visioning Color: Race in the Arts

• Siobhan Senier, Woman of the Red Atlantic: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet's Shifting Racial Identities
• Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Nomads in Plain Sight: Creole as a Concept or Post Identity Crisis Syndrome
• Delia Konzett, Interracial New England in Cinema

Session #2: The Power to Name: New England in Red & Black

• Julianne Jennings, Mixed-Blood Indians of Southern New England
• M. Parm Schrems, A "Very bad outcry": The Mashpee-Wampanoag Proprietors' Struggle against the Theft of Political Autonomy, 1788-1789
• William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., and Margo Lukens, Rez Politics: Re-examining the realities of blood quantum and intertribal relationships

Lunch Performance

• Mwalim (Morgan James Peters), You're An Indian?

Session #3: Contending with Tradition: Black Bostonians and the Negotiation of Identities

• Ousmane Power-Greene, "We Are Not Your Enemies": Black Americans and the New England Colonization Movement in 1818-1860
• Deidre Hill-Butler, Womanist identities in Newton, Massachusetts, 1904-1920
• Daniel McClure, Elma Lewis, Cultural Brokerage and Black Community Formation in Boston, 1939-1969

Session #4: Writing Race

• Carol Conaway, "The Question of Racially-Integrated Education: The Antebellum Thought of Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass."
• Lena Ampadu, Crossing Racial Lines to Advance a Race: The Rhetoric and Politics of Pauline Hopkins
• Pearlie Peters, Dorothy West's Classic Recordings of New England Life
• Margaret Schramm, Racism in Dorothy West's Mother-Daughter Relationships

Break for Dinner

Keynote Address & Opening Reception (MUB Theatre 1)

• Lorene Cary

Registration

Session #5: Breaking Boundaries

• Chris Cameron, Creating Communities: African American Religion and Politics in Colonial Massachusetts
• Eric Aldrich, "An Impertinent and Unchristian Spirit"
• Amber Moulton-Wiseman, Charles Lenox Remond and the Repeal of Massachusetts' Interracial Marriage Ban
• Zebulon Miletsky, Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

Session #6: Tracing the Color Line

• David Watters, Passing in Black and White: Danzy Senna's Caucasia and New Hampshire's "Negrobilia"
• Aminah Pilgrim, The Changing Same: Competing Notions of Blackness Among Traditionally Defined African-Americans and Immigrants of the African Diaspora in the U.S.
• Valerie Cunningham & Linda Freeman, Colors and Colorism

Lunch Performance

• Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti, Sarah Harris

Session #7: Separate & Unequal: Creating Black Spaces

• Elise Lemire, Walden Pond and Post-Slavery Segregation in New England
• Kent A. McConnell, "Fly to arms and smite to death...the hopeless grave": The Contested Meaning of Black Soldiering in New England, 1861-1897
• Rachel Jones Williams, "Thou Hast a Right to Noble Pride": An African American Woman Entrepreneur and Activist Transcends Race and Class in New England