Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Freedom on the Frontier explores how Native nations in Revolutionary-era and early 19th-century Ohio created unexpected pathways of settlement for African-descended people fleeing slavery or increasingly restrictive laws. Through case studies and frontier history, the program reveals how Native traditions of adoption, sanctuary, and mobility challenged European and U.S. notions of citizenship and slavery. This program will also discuss Black life on the frontier in this time period and how African American and Native American Cultures interacted, including multi-racial communities.