Elevator Speech: I am haunted by waters

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by Lois MacMillan11 views·Updated Oct 2, 2022
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This is a brief description of the inspiration under my capstone project .

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  1. I am haunted by waters is how norman Maclean ended his short story.
  2. The river runs through it and is also the theme of my capstone project
  3. this summer. I attended A and N. E.
  4. H seminar on reconstruction and visit historic Mitchellville where
  5. I posed the question to the executive director,
  6. Ahmad Ward on the gulls people connection to water.
  7. And I asked if they learned how,
  8. I was surprised when I learned that they didn't learn how to swim.
  9. This question was reiterated at by Scholar Cheryl Larouche on September 23 at
  10. this year's sailing to freedom conference
  11. sponsored by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
  12. Two books that are deeply influencing my
  13. research is timothy walker Sailing to Freedom.
  14. The maritime dimensions of the underground railroad
  15. and
  16. Brent Morris's
  17. dismal freedom,
  18. a history of the maroons of the great dismal swamp.
  19. Hopefully analyzing these seeking freedom.
  20. Voices in my capstone project,
  21. which I think demands a reassessment of the
  22. meaning of freedom will also be an exercise and
  23. an exercise in doing justice to the memory of those self emancipate
  24. as before the american civil war and have connections to today.
  25. On what historian Jeff wilts labels contested waters