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<\/a>be to produce full-length state reports accompanied by various online resources, such as interactive maps, videos, and an underlying database of sources.\u00a0 We expect these freely available resources to help spark further classroom discussion and more expansive scholarly research into this national phenomenon.<\/p>\nOrigins and Definition.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The term “slave stampede” or “stampede of slaves” began appearing in American newspapers in the late 1840s, but spread quickly during the fugitive crisis of the 1850s, and eventually became a staple of sectional debate, especially after John Brown’s raids in 1858 and 1859 and throughout the Civil War era.\u00a0 Participants and observers seemed to use the concept in diverse ways: sometimes to describe serial escapes by individuals or pairs, sometimes to describe either spontaneous or planned small group escapes of 3 or more people, and yet most often to define a special type of mass escape involving a dozen or more, often armed, bands of enslaved people heading defiantly toward freedom.\u00a0 The term thus represented for them something deeper than a vague or localized reference to group flight, but rather became weighted down with obvious revolutionary meaning.\u00a0 It seems clear that modern-day teachers and scholars should consider trying to situate the idea of slave stampedes more consciously within the taxonomy of American slave resistance, probably somewhere between “day-to-day resistance” and “servile insurrection.” For now, however, our research effort will define the term as broadly as possible in order to help see where the sources may lead us and to better appreciate the larger context.<\/p>\n Future plans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>On this blog site, we will post examples of the historical material that we are turning up in our digital and archival searches.\u00a0 Please consider this site only as a kind of open historical laboratory.\u00a0 We are trying to share our progress as it develops, seeking your input and assistance whenever it might be helpful. Eventually, these findings will form the basis of the online report and freely accessible database designed to provide resources for anyone who wants to teach or learn about this important subject. Ultimately, we anticipate that the final reports for Missouri and Kentucky will explain the evolution of the slave stampede concept by detailing a number of the most important such stampedes occurring out of eastern Missouri or Northern Kentucky during the late antebellum and wartime periods.<\/p>\n DIRECTOR:<\/strong> \u00a0Matthew Pinsker<\/strong><\/a> (House Divided) is a Professor of History and Pohanka Chair for Civil War History at Dickinson College, where he also serves as Director of the House Divided Project. Pinsker graduated from Harvard College and received a D.Phil. degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford.\u00a0 He has held visiting fellowships with the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on Abraham Lincoln and various topics in the Civil War era and the history of slavery.\u00a0 Pinsker will serve as director and principal investigator (PI) for the slave stampedes project.<\/p>\n NPS ORGANIZER: Deanda Johnson<\/strong> (National Park Service), PhD, is currently the Civil Rights Historian for Region 2 in the National Park Service.\u00a0 She previously served as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the National Park Service Network to Freedom Program in Omaha, Nebraska. She joined the NTF program in 2010.\u00a0 Johnson was also previously the Coordinator of the African American Research and Service Institute at Ohio University where she was involved with the \u201cThe African American Presence in the Ohio River Valley Oral History Project.\u201d At the university, she served as a visiting instructor in the Department of African American Studies. She received her BA from University of California, San Diego and her MA and PhD in American Studies from the College of William & Mary. \u00a0Johnson was the original organizer of the slave stampedes initiative and the first agreement technical representative (ATR) for the project.<\/p>\n NPS REPRESENTATIVE (MISSOURI):<\/strong>\u00a0 Tim Townsend<\/strong> is the Historian at the Lincoln National Home Historic Site in Springfield, IL, where he has worked since 1991.\u00a0 Townsend received his BA in History from St. Ambrose University and an MA in History from the University of Illinois – Springfield.\u00a0 Townsend is currently the ATR for the Slave Stampedes on the Missouri Borderlands phase of this project.<\/p>\n NPS REPRESENTATIVE (KENTUCKY):\u00a0 Sheri Jackson\u00a0<\/strong>is the Southeast Regional Program Manager for the NPS Network to Freedom, based in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Jackson has worked for the National Park Service for nearly 30 years, including nearly twenty of those years with the Network to Freedom.\u00a0 Jackson is currently the ATR for the Slave Stampedes on the Kentucky Borderlands phase of this project.<\/p>\n ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0 Cooper Wingert<\/strong> is a PhD student in History at Georgetown University.\u00a0 He received a BA in History from Dickinson College.\u00a0 Wingert is the author of ten books on topics in the Civil War, slavery, and the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n DICKINSON STAFF<\/strong><\/p>\n Technical experts from Dickinson’s Academic Technology<\/a> division have included Drupal specialists Todd Bryant and Ryan Burke, GIS specialist Jim Ciarrocca and Gordon Cromley, and academic computing director, Pat Pehlman.\u00a0 Senior researchers have included independent historian Rick Beard<\/a>, local educator and author Todd Mealy<\/a>, and House Divided Project co-founder, John Osborne<\/a>.<\/p>\n DICKINSON STUDENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Interns contributing to this project have included Dickinson College undergraduates Sarah Aillon, Henry Booth, Amanda Donoghue<\/a>, Caroline Eagleton, Forbes, Charlotte Goodman<\/a>, Dana Marecheau<\/a>, Liz McCreary<\/a>, Jordyn Ney, Jocelyn Reyes, Jordan Schucker, Amanda Sowah<\/a>, Etsub Taye, Naji Thompson<\/a> and Cooper Wingert<\/a>.<\/p>\n RELATED NPS SITES<\/strong><\/p>\n Lincoln National Home<\/a> (Springfield, IL)<\/p>\n Gateway Arch<\/a> (St. Louis, MO)<\/p>\n Ste. Genevieve National Historic Park<\/a> (Ste. Genevieve, MO)<\/p>\nOur Team<\/strong><\/h1>\n