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MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD
November 1, 2023
MD Emancipation Webinar for Educators: Places of Black Joy: The NACE’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 5 pm – 6 pm, EDT
Celebrate Maryland Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864) exploring museum curricular resources developed by Maryland educators from the University of Maryland Writing Project connected with one of the first freedom celebrations in Maryland. Learn about Nathaniel “Nace” Hopkins, an enslaved Black man and Union soldier who founded the Nace’s Day Parade in Trappe, MD which is still celebrated today.