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CREC Metropolitan Learning Center to Hold Abolitionist Fair Struggle for Freedom
Summary:
The CREC Metropolitan Learning Center for Global and International Studies will hold its 10th annual Abolitionist Fair: Struggle for Freedom on March 18.
Schools and community members are welcome to attend and should contact Lynette Brown at lbrown@crec.org, or 860-242-7834, for more information. Members of the media are also invited and should contact Amanda Falcone at afalcone@crec.org, or 860-509-3663.
More than 100 students have prepared multimedia displayers, interactive games, dramatic presentations, and other projects for the Abolitionist Fair. These activities will help educate students and community members about the horrors of modern-day slavery and what they can do to end it.
Activists and students from anti-slavery groups, such as the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Love146, and Free the Slaves, will join CREC Metropolitan Learning Center students at the Abolitionist Fair. The event will include an 11 a.m. discussion about trafficking in Connecticut and throughout the world.
The Abolitionist Fair began in 2006 when ninth-grade U.S. history students were studying slavery in the 1800s. The students were outraged to learn that slavery was still happening, and they formed a group called Student Abolitionists Stopping Slavery. The fair is a way that the group can actively fight injustice.
