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February, 2012

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Event:

Underground Railroad Program with Performance

Date:

February 4th, 2012.

Time:

2:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Historical Society, 96 Palisado Avenue, Windsor, CT

Contact:

Christine Ermenc, 860/688-3813

Underground Railroad Program with Performance

Please join us at Windsor Historical Society on Saturday, February 4, at 2 p.m. for a special Underground Railroad performance by the internationally acclaimed Connecticut performing group Nzinga's Daughters. The performers in Nzinga's Daughters use poetry, stories, and songs from the Underground Railroad to reveal coded messages hidden within Negro spirituals and everyday objects. Participation from audience members will be encouraged through the use of African percussion instruments, games, and participation in story and song. The group is named for the early seventeenth-century Angolan ruler Queen Nzinga who is remembered for her efforts in resisting the Portuguese slave trade. Known for her exceptional statesmanship and guerilla warfare tactics, Queen Nzinga effectively resisted Portuguese forces for decades through alliances with the Dutch and her military strategies.

Come to this performance and learn more about the Underground Railroad, its secrets, and its inspiring songs and stories. America's Underground Railroad refers to the secret routes and the network of resource people in various states that thousands of enslaved African Americans used to escape to freedom in Canada and Mexico. As an underground resistance movement, the Underground Railroad was decentralized and covert in nature. "Conductors" responsible for moving enslaved Africans from "station" to "station" or safe house and the "stationmasters" who housed them knew little more than their own part in the operation. Oral traditions passed down about the Underground Railroad indicate that songs, quilts, and specific code words and phrases were used as communication aids along the routes. This performance is partially supported by a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council for Civil War programming.

We encourage you to make reservations before the program by calling 860/688-3813, x. 102. Cost for the program is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and $4 for Windsor Historical Society members. Parking is available in the Windsor Discovery Center and First Church parking lots and around Palisado Green.

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