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(Cazenovia, Peterboro NY \u2013 Oct. 2015) The Saturday Oct. 24 afternoon program for the Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator weekend event will encourage public participation and provide a ballot for participants to vote on the sixteenth president as to whether he was an abolitionist \u2013 or not.<\/p>\n

At 2 p.m. at the Catherine Cummings Theatre (16 Lincklaen St. in Cazenovia) Milton C. Sernett PhD will lead discussion for The Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln: Head, Heart, and the American Memory. Sernett will introduce two Lincoln scholars who have researched and published on Lincoln and his family.<\/p>\n

Joseph Fornieri PhD will talk about his publication on Lincoln\u2019s leadership, and Jason Emerson will follow with a presentation on his research on the Lincoln family and domestic issues as they relate to Lincoln\u2019s leadership. At the conclusion of the afternoon session Dr. Sernett will facilitate audience participation with the scholars. As participants leave they will receive a ballot in exchange for a feedback form. The result of the ballot vote -which will be posted on the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum website- will determine if Lincoln should be included in the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) in Peterboro.<\/p>\n

\"Milton<\/a>
Milton C. Sernett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Sernett states, \u201cIn a speech delivered at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, on March 25, 1862, Frederick Douglass rejoiced in the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and said of President Abraham Lincoln, \u2018A blind man can see where the president\u2019s heart is.\u2019 The rail splitter from Illinois has been enshrined in the American memory as \u2018the Great Emancipator,\u2019 yet many historians today argue that he was no abolitionist in spite of deeply held antislavery views. The Lincoln program brings together noted Lincoln scholars to examine the evolution of Lincoln\u2019s views on slavery and the genius of his political leadership at a time of great national peril.”<\/p>\n

Sernett is professor emeritus of African American Studies and History and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Syracuse University is a founder and a member of the Cabinet of Freedom for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, and provides many resources and programs on 19th C. abolition. His principal areas of teaching and research have been African American religious history, the American South, the abolition movement, the Underground Railroad, and American social reform movements. Sernett was a Research Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, in 1988-89. In 1994-95 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany. He has served as a scholarly advisor to the National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He continues to teach an online Underground Railroad course and a course on the history of American abolitionism during his retirement. He has published eight books and numerous scholarly essays. Among his books are abolition\u2019s Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle; North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, and Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, & Freedom. He has given presentations on the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and Harriet Tubman on many occasions for the Scholar\u2019s program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Sernett has also served as a consultant to numerous organizations interested in documenting local and regional history pertaining to the Underground Railroad and Abolitionism.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/a>
Jason Emerson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jason Emerson is an\u00a0independent historian\u00a0and\u00a0journalist living in Cazenovia. He is currently the editor of the\u00a0Cazenovia Republican\u00a0newspaper. He is the author or editor of multiple books about Abraham Lincoln and his family, has published numerous\u00a0articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications, and appeared on Book TV, American History TV and The History Channel.\u00a0He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, and a freelance writer.<\/p>\n

Emerson\u2019s historical research and writing focus on the life and times of Lincoln and his family. Among Emerson\u2019s publications: Lincoln\u2019s Son for President , The Madness of Mary Lincoln, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Widow, As Revealed by Her Own Letters, Lincoln\u2019s Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry, a collection of poetry written by, for, and about Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary Lincoln\u2019s Insanity Case: A Documentary History is a compilation of every primary source on the subject, including 138 letters by participants, 46 contemporary newspaper articles and editorials, 6 legal documents the Bellevue Place Sanitarium daily patient progress report during Mary Lincoln\u2019s incarceration, as well as multiple reminiscences, interviews, an diaries of people who knew Mary Lincoln or were involved in the case, including one recollection by a member of the 1875 insanity trial jury. Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln, is the definitive biography of the Lincoln\u2019s oldest son, a great man in his own right who has been ignored, misunderstood, and often maligned by historians and history. Emerson\u2019s biography is the first book published on Robert Lincoln in more than forty years.<\/p>\n

\"Joseph<\/a>
Joseph R. Fornieri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joseph R. Fornieri PhD. is professor of political science and Director of the Center for Law, Statesmanship, and Liberty, at the Rochester Institute of Technology He teaches a wide array of classes including American politics, political leadership, American political thought, political theory, politics through fiction, and constitutional rights and liberties. Fornieri has received the RIT Provost\u2019s Award for outstanding teaching for junior faculty and the Eisenhart Award for outstanding teaching for tenured faculty. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright to teach First Amendment and American Political Thought at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Political Faith, an acclaimed scholarly work that explores Lincoln\u2019s religion and politics as well as the author or editor of several other books on Abraham Lincoln\u2019s political thought and statesmanship. Fornieri served as a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, 1809-2009 and is an acting Board Member of the Lincoln Forum.<\/p>\n

Fornieri\u2019s publication\u00a0Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman\u00a0explores Lincoln\u2019s political brilliance. Allen C. Guelzo describes the work as wonderfully concise work on the politics of Lincoln, and praises Fornieri for performing to perfection the task of laying out the lines of Lincoln\u2019 politics, not only for his time but also in terms of the seven classical characteristics that make for \u201cgreatness of soul.\u201d James Oakes further applauds Fornieri for bringing the insights of political philosophy to bear on the study of Abraham Lincoln, and, in so doing, \u201cenriches our understanding of what made the sixteenth president not only a great politician but also a great statesman.\u201d Fornieri rejects \u201cthe cynical notion that a seasoned political operative cannot also be a principled idealist.\u201d<\/p>\n

In commemoration of the end of the Civil War, the death of Lincoln, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) has suspended its 2015 induction ceremonies to address the matter of President Lincoln as \u201cThe Great Emancipator.\u201d Several programs will provide opportunity for the public to study Lincoln as an abolitionist. The \u201cLincoln Weekend\u201d will begin at the Catherine Cummings Theatre in Cazenovia at 7 p.m. Friday, October 23 with A Concert for President Lincoln by the Excelsior Cornet Band.\u00a0 At 7 p.m. on Saturday October 24 Harold Holzer, President of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, will present Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition Press at the Cummings Theatre.<\/p>\n

The Great Emancipator event and the Created Equal Film and Discussion series will both culminate on Sunday, Oct. 25 in Peterboro at 9 a.m. with Abolition Coffee and a guided tour of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark (5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro) with Gerrit Smith biographer Norman K. Dann PhD.<\/p>\n

At 10 a.m. an Abolition Breakfast reception for Dorothy Riester\u2019s sculpture titled Young Lincoln will be held at the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum to welcome the sculpture loan from the Stone Quarry Art Park, followed directly by a guided tour of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro) with NAHOF Vice-President Tim McLaughlin PhD. at 10:30.<\/p>\n

At 11:30 a.m. the three part series of The Abolitionists, which is part of the Created Equal: America\u2019s Civil Rights Struggle film series will begin with Part I of The Abolitionists \u2013 along with Abolition Morning Tea. Part II begins at 1 p.m. with Abolition Lunch, and Part III begins at 2:30 p.m. with Abolition Dessert. The concluding session at 4 p.m. examines Where are We as Abolitionists Today?<\/p>\n

Lincoln red white and blue admission tickets cost a Lincoln bill for adults and for ages 5 \u2013 12 a Lincoln coin.<\/p>\n

Sunday, Oct. 25 sessions are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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