I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railway

Sunday, Mar 11, 2012 11:00a

Lorenzo Cultural Center Charter Township Of Clinton, MI

Karolyn Smardz Frost, historian and archaeologist who excavated the Thornton and Lucie Blackburn site in Toronto, recounts this fugitive slave couple’s dramatic escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad, which was aided by the first racial uprising in Detroit history, the Blackburn Riots of 1833.

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Lorenzo Cultural Center
44575 Garfield Rd.
Charter Township Of Clinton, MI 48038
(586) 445-7348

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