which will be moderated by obed macy research chair michael harrison, so please submit your questions for them to use during the q&a feature or using the q&a feature, but that i m going to turn it over now to tim. hi, tim. hello welcome. thank you so much for having me. i m really very grateful to be here and it s exciting to have an opportunity to share this information and material with you. i m going to share my screen to get us started. so there we go. so this is the cover of the recently published books sailing to freedom maritime dimensions of the underground railroad, and i want to begin just by pointing out that this is not an effort that is only my own work. it s a collaboration of nine other authors. it s an edited volume and together we put together a volume which i hope will begin to challenge and even change people s minds about how to conceptualize and think about the underground railroad. now we think about the underground railroad mainly as a terrestrial event
which will be moderated by obed macy research chair michael harrison, so please submit your questions for them to use during the q&a feature or using the q&a feature, but that i m going to turn it over now to tim. hi, tim. hello welcome. thank you so much for having me. i m really very grateful to be here and it s exciting to have an opportunity to share this information and material with you. i m going to share my screen to get us started. so there we go. so this is the cover of the recently published books sailing to freedom maritime dimensions of the underground railroad, and i want to begin just by pointing out that this is not an effort that is only my own work. it s a collaboration of nine other authors. it s an edited volume and together we put together a volume which i hope will begin to challenge and even change people s minds about how to conceptualize and think about the underground railroad. now we think about the underground railroad mainly as a terrestrial event
thank you so much for joining us tonight. my name is amelia holmes, and i am excited to introduce you to our speaker, dr. timothy walker professor of history at the university of massachusetts. dartmouth is a scholar of america a maritime history colonial overseas expansion and trans oceanic slave trading. walker is a guest investigator of the woods hole oceanographic institution a contributing faculty member of the munson institute of maritime studies and director of the national endowment for the humanities landmarks and american history workshop series titled sailing to freedom, new bedford and the underground railroad. his presentation tonight. we followed by a q&a session which will be moderated by obed macy research chair michael harrison, so please submit your questions for them to use during the q&a feature or using the q&a feature, but that i m going to turn it over now to tim. hi, tim. hello welcome. thank you so much for having me. i m really very grateful to be he
thank you so much for joining us tonight. my name is amelia holmes, and i am excited to introduce you to our speaker, dr. timothy walker professor of history at the university of massachusetts. dartmouth is a scholar of america a maritime history colonial overseas expansion and trans oceanic slave trading. walker is a guest investigator of the woods hole oceanographic institution a contributing faculty member of the munson institute of maritime studies and director of the national endowment for the humanities landmarks and american history workshop series titled sailing to freedom, new bedford and the underground railroad. his presentation tonight. we followed by a q&a session which will be moderated by obed macy research chair michael harrison, so please submit your questions for them to use during the q&a feature or using the q&a feature, but that i m going to turn it over now to tim. hi, tim. hello welcome. thank you so much for having me. i m really very grateful to be he
university of mama massachusetts dartmouth. walker is a guest investigator of the woods whole ocean graphic institution. a contributing faculty member of the munson institute of studies and director of the national endowment sailing to freedom. new bedford and the underground railroad. his presentation tonight will be followed by a q & a session which will be moderated by michael harrison. submit your questions for them to use by using the q & a feature. with that, i will turn it over now to tim. hi, tim. hello. thank you so much for having me. i am grateful to be here. thank you for having me. it s exciting to have an opportunity to share this information with you. i will share my screen to get us started. so there we go. so this is the cover of the recently published book sailing to freedom. this is not an effort that is only my own work, it s a collaboration of nine other authors. it s an edited volume and together we put together a volume i hope will begin to chal