One Journey Symposium: 230th Year of Historic Freetown
March 10, 2022 | OnlineThe “One Journey” Symposium is a series of global dialogues among people of African descent in Africa and the African Diaspora whose journeys collectively reflect the black historical experience.
The 1st Symposium
Featuring Speakers and Panelists in Maryland, South Carolina, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Africa, this 1st One Journey Symposium highlights different perspectives and contributions of the journey and legacies of black Settlers and the founding of Historic Freetown 230 years ago in 1792.
Topics include West Africa before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Black Loyalists who fought during the American Revolutionary War and later settled in Canada, the largest exodus of free blacks from the Americas to Africa, the historic founding of Freetown in 1792, Gullah-Geechee Corridor, and Historic Freetown at 230 years old.
This 1st Symposium was organized by Adrian Q. Labor & Akindele T.M. Decker of African Curator, Amadu Massally & Aminata Kondeh of TPISENT, Barbara Morgan of Zion 230, Adesina During of KDU-Global, in partnership with the Freetown City Council and the Mayor of Freetown.
Mayor of Freetown
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Historian & Professor
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr. Emory Campbell
Former Director of Penn Center
South Carolina
Dr. Nemata Blyden
Historian & Professor
George Washington University
Washington D.C.
CEO & Founder
Fambul Tik
Heritage Company
Principal
Auburn Drive High School
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Historian & Professor
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Executive Director
Gullah Geechee Cultural
Heritage Corridor
South Carolina
Engineer & Historian
Krio Descendants Yunion
President
Creole Heritage Association
California
President
Creole Heritage Association
International
President
Krio Descendants Union
Global
One Journey Schedule
March 10th, 2022
9:00 am
(10:00 AM AST, 2:00 PM GMT)
Lives in West African Communities before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
10:00 am
(11:00 AM AST, 3:00 PM GMT)
10:45 am
(11:45 AM AST, 3:45 PM GMT)
Featuring the #1792 Project Letters in a bottle from Nova Scotia to Freetown
11:30 am
(12:30 PM AST, 4:30 PM GMT)
Featuring Settlers Anthony Elliott, Thomas Peters, and David George.
12:00 PM
(1:00 PM AST, 5:00 PM GMT)
One Journey
A journey through the middle-passage.
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Contributors
Some of the Sponsors, Participants, and Contributors to this Symposium
Freetown City Council
