PAST EVENTS

NAHOF hosts various events throughout the year. See below for examples
of events we've held in previous years.

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2024 EVENTS

February 1-29 2024: Black History Matters

Where: NAHOF's YouTube channel
Free to view!

Black History Matters is an educational series that seeks to highlight historical events in the Black American experience. The videos provide critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America.

​New videos will be released each day of February at midnight on NAHOF's YouTube channel. View the full programme.

CANCELLED - June 19 2024, 7:30pm: Juneteenth

Where: Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134
Free!

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum invites the public to an evening with Milton C.Sernett PhD when he presents Juneteenth: A Time of History and Reflection. Following the distribution of the United States Emancipation Timeline, brief video presentations will help explain Juneteenth 1865 as one of the many steps toward emancipation. Dr. Sernett will lead the times of reflections and discussions.

​View a timeline of emancipation in the United States, and view the full media release.

5 July 2024, 7pm: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Where: National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134
Free!

Owen D. Corpin, a native and current resident of Peterboro NY, whose family heritage traces directly to former slaves freed by the local abolitionist Gerrit Smith, will deliver parts of one of Frederick Douglass’ most famous speeches.
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View the full media release.

October 5, 2024: 3rd Annual Abolition Walk

Where: The Walk is from Canastota to Clockville and back (5.4 miles - 2 hrs)​

We'll trace a portion of the footsteps of the 104 brave souls who escaped an angry mob of anti-abolitionists in Utica in 1835, embarked on an Erie Canal lumber barge to Canastota, and climbed the trail to Peterboro where they formed the New York State Anti-Slavery Society.

For more information, a map of the route,  schedule  and how to register and/or become an event sponsor, visit www.abolitionroad.org.

October 18~20, 2024: National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
Induction Weekend

Where: Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro 1313
​Download Registration Form here.

Inductees

Catharine White Coffin   •   Levi Coffin    •   Leonard Andrew Grimes   •   James McCune Smith

Friday, October 18, 2024    

• 7 pm North to Freedom, an original documentary film, 

Saturday, October 19, 2024    

• 1~5 pm  Abolition Symposia A program on each of the abolitionist inductees will be presented.
• 5 pm Antislavery Dinner (Reservations Required)
• 7 pm Induction Ceremonies and Presentation of the Inductee Banners

Sunday, October 20, 2024        

• 9 am ​Cazenovia Convention and the Fugitive Slave Law (9 Sullivan Street    Cazenovia NY 13035)

Download Registration Form here.

For more info visit www.peterborony.org/events/nahof-induction-ceremony-2024
PO Box 55 , 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134  
​[email protected] 315.380.1890

​Tuesday December 31, 2024
Annual Peterboro Emancipation Watch Night

10 a.m.
Program
Refreshments
Exhibit: Facsimile Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Watch Fire at the Gerrit Smith Estate
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MORE INFO

5255 Pleasant Valley Road
Peterboro NY 13134
Free
[email protected]
315.308.1890

​For status of the program, due to weather, call 315.308.1890 after 1 p.m. Monday, December 30, 2024

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