{"id":74367,"date":"2016-10-23T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74367"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:08:53","slug":"national-abolition-hall-of-fame-and-museum-inducts-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74367","title":{"rendered":"National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Inducts Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"in-2016-eve-ceremonies-green\"<\/a>On the 181st Anniversary of the conclusion of the inaugural meeting of the New York state antislavery meeting Oct. 22, 1835, which commenced in Utica the day before, the National\u00a0Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum inducted four abolitionists. The induction was held in\u00a0the Peterboro building where the abolitionists met in 1835.<\/p>\n

After an afternoon Abolition Symposia\u00a0with presentations on each of the inductees, the Peterboro Deli on the Green catered a 19th-century\u00a0antislavery dinner after which the induction ceremonies took place.\u00a0Forty students, staff, and faculty, including the college president, from Berea College, Berea, Ken., and\u00a0relatives from Indiana, Ken., took part in the induction of Rev. John Gregg Fee, who founded an\u00a0unusual college.<\/p>\n

\"in-2016-eve-ceremonies-fee-boutan-roelofs-turley\"<\/a>Alicestyne Turley,\u00a0Ph.D., Director of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial\u00a0Education at Berea, nominated and presented the lecture on Fee and students from the Berea\u00a0Musical Ensemble performed musical selections.<\/p>\n

Relatives from California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia joined Milton C. Sernett,\u00a0Ph.D., author of Abolition\u2019s Axe, a\u00a0biography of Beriah Green, in the nomination of Green. Green was the President of the 19th-century\u00a0Oneida Institute in Whitesboro.<\/p>\n

Jan DeAmicis and Mary Hayes Gordon, co-chairwomen of the Oneida\u00a0County Freedom Trail, were also nominators explaining the importance of Green to the Utica area\u00a0and dramatizing the Peterboro-Utica connection for the 1835 New York state anti-slavery meeting.<\/p>\n

Louise Knight arrived from Illinois to spend time with relatives of Angelina Grimk\u00e9 before\u00a0presenting the lecture and nomination for Grimk\u00e9-Weld. Suzanne B. Spring PhD, Colgate University,\u00a0joined the nomination ceremonies, as well.<\/p>\n

Christopher Webber, San Francisco CA, nominated James W. C. Pennington and presented the\u00a0program on Pennington. Webber, author of a biography on Pennington was joined in the evening\u00a0induction ceremonies by Jason Land, the student president of the Yale Divinity School and Paul\u00a0Stewart, co-founder of the Underground Railroad History Project Capital Region in Albany.<\/p>\n

After announcements for the Commemoration Ceremonies for the four inductees Oct. 20 through 22, 2017, Max Smith, Co-Chair Peterboro Emancipation Days, closed the evening with a final musical\u00a0selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 181st Anniversary of the conclusion of the inaugural meeting of the New York state antislavery meeting Oct. 22, 1835, which commenced in Utica the day before, the National\u00a0Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum inducted four abolitionists. The induction was held in\u00a0the Peterboro building where the abolitionists met in 1835. After an afternoon Abolition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jlt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IN-2016-EVE-CEREMONIES-FEE-BEREA-ME.jpg?fit=1280%2C886&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}