American Literature visits Freedom Center
0Written By Katie Walters
Thursday, Nov. 6, UPIKE’s American Literature class along with its professor, Dr. Brigitte Anderson, visited the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The trip was funded through Experiential Learning to further the students’ knowledge on the Civil War pieces that they had been reading. The museum acted as a link to help make the content they were learning more real and personal.
The group spent the day observing the museums exhibits and making connections with the content they had been studying. Although they already knew a lot from their own research, the experience was enlightening. It offered much information that was helpful for their classroom discussion.
“The museum was a fantastic experience. The place was jammed to the gills with history; some of which I knew, but most was new to me,” Ariq Skinner, a junior majoring in English, said. “There were works of art and articles of slaves’ clothing. There were motion pictures that really captured the experience, as it was, of a slave escaping the southern states and crossing the river into Ohio.”