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Paul Mickey Science Series: Known by me to be a freeman of colour": Telling the Jameson Jenkins Story at Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Paul Mickey Science Series: Known by me to be a freeman of colour": Telling the Jameson Jenkins Story at Lincoln Home National Historic Site

• Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
• Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Presented by Timothy Townsend, Historian, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Abraham Lincoln’s neighbor and Underground Railroad conductor Jameson Jenkins lived one block south of Lincoln’s home. In 2007, the Jenkins property was included in the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom because of Jenkin’s involvement in helping freedom seekers during what was referred to as a “Slave Stampede” in 1850. While specific information about Jenkins is limited, existing knowledge provides insight into the struggles and challenges that both enslaved and free African Americans faced from anti-black slave codes and other limits to freedom that were in place in Jenkins’ native North Carolina, his temporary home in Indiana, and in his final home in Illinois. Townsend will also discuss plans for the creation of a permanent exhibit to be placed on the lot where the Jenkins house once stood that was funded through a grant from the National Park Foundation.

One of our Paul Mickey Science Series

Discover Illinois' rich prehistoric and historic past by attending an ISM Paul Mickey Science Series Program. A different speaker and topic are featured each month. For more information on upcoming topics and speakers, please contact Nina Walthall at (217) 782-0061 or 217-785-0037.

• Usually held the second Wednesday of Each Month
• 7:00 to 8:30 PM
• Held at the ISM Research & Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street (enter the building from 10 ½ Street between Ash & Laurel Streets), Springfield, Illinois
  
• Free Admission