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Homeschool Days: Slavery & Freedom: The Sandy Spring Story

Homeschool Day: Slavery and Freedom – The Sandy Spring Story

Ages 11 – 15

10am-12:00pm

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Students will explore slavery and freedom through the perspective of the Quakers and their choice to free their slaves throughout the nineteenth century.  Students will use primary resources to analyze why Montgomery had the largest number of free black communities in Maryland prior to the Civil War.

$8.00 per non-member student, $6.00 members

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$5.00 per sibling under 11 years

Parents/Adults free

Register by Wednesday, November 13, 2013.  Registration can be submitted here or by contacting the Education Department by email or call 301-774-0022.

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