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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 92 Print image (43K) |
| 83 have entered into discussion about the specifics of the festival and to encourage a bicycle journey through the State of Maryland which would retrace routes of slavery and the Underground Railroad as a partnership effort. It is anticipated that the proposed educational journey will originate from Annapolis, the state capital and site of the arrival of Kunte Kinte into the United States. Primary participants and attention will focus upon youth of Muncaster Challenge Program who will travel throughout Maryland to study this history encourage other public school systems to get involved. This, it is hoped, will be one of several major events of the millennium preceding the Kunta Kinte Festival. Pursuant to proposed plans outlined by Mr. Blackshear, a major telecommunications link and sponsor would be established between Maryland and Ghana to provide an educational and electronic classroom between students of each country as part of the program series. [Mr. Leonard Blackshear (Kunte Kinte Foundation), Mr. Steven Durand (Muncaster Challenge Program Director) and Mr. Reginald Smith (Muncaster Challenge/Montgomery County Department of Recreation) are recommended as additional points of contact for educational and historically based programs in Maryland which connect with the history of slavery and which have received |