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HOT OFF DA PRESS!!! #jacksonville is in for a treat. Live in concert @ Veterans Memorial Arena #kattwilliams on Oct. 24! Hit up @realkattwilliams on #Instagram and show sum luv for #blacksonville

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Florida Underground Railroad Conference 2012

Location: St. Augustine, Florida, Jacksonville and surrounding areas Dates: June 20-23, 2012; Potential for Sunday, June 24th Current Partners: National Park Service Organization of American Historians National Park Foundation Freedom Road, Inc. Florida Living History, Inc. Florida Park Service Fort Mose Historical Society Flagler College City of St. Augustine, Department of Tourism City of St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, & The Beaches Visitor and Convention Bureau Conference Theme and Description: The conference theme is the resistance to slavery through escape and flight to and from the South, including through international flight, from the 16 th century to the end of the Civil War. Traditional views of the Underground Railroad focus on Northern destinations of freedom seekers, with symbols such as the North Star, Canada, and the Ohio River (the River Jordan) constructed as the primary beacons of freedom. This conception reduces the complexity of the Underground Railroad by ignoring the many freedom seekers that sought to obtain their freedom in southern destinations. Likewise, borders and the movement across them by southern freedom seekers are also very crucial to our understanding of the complexities of the Underground Railroad. Freedom seekers often sought out political and geographical borderlands, as crossing these locations usually represented the divide between slavery and freedom. To this end, the conference will explore how southern freedom seekers seized opportunities to escape slavery into Spanish Florida and the Seminole Nation, to the Caribbean Islands, and into the western borderlands of Indian Territory, Texas, and Mexico. Escape from enslavement was not just about physical freedom, but also about the search for cultural autonomy. The conference will explore the transformation and creation of new cultural identities among southern freedom seekers that occurred as a result of their journeys to freedom, such as the dispersal of Gullah Geechee culture and the formation of Black Seminole cultural identity. The conference seeks to create a cultural, historical, and interpretive exchange between domestic and international descendent communities of southern freedom seekers. For more details on upcoming events, click here

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The BLACK is for HUMANITY, the beginning and the end...so to the beginning. The RED is for the BLOOD that flows like rivers carrying deposit of memories haunted by time The GREEN is for the EARTH who produces the MANNA that we crave daily, and now she cries out to us. The GOLD is the KNOWLEDGE and the POWER is gives us when we remember the BLACK, RED, and GREEN. WEAR YOUR FLAG --- J SHANNON-EL, 2012