About Camp Journey to Freedom

Miami University Hamilton has been selected by the U. S. Department of Education to present “Journey to Freedom,” a free history and civics summer camp for 40 high school students in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Participants will live for two weeks at Camp Campbell Gard, a 600 acre YMCA adventure camp located on the Great Miami Rivier near Hamilton, Ohio, and twenty miles from Cincinnati. They will take part in educational and outdoor activities and will receive instruction in American history and government at the Miami University Hamilton campus.

 

Instruction
American history to be covered at the camp will include the rise of the abolitionist movement and the origins of the Underground Railroad; the causes of the Civil War; the emancipation proclamation; and the role of African Americans in the Civil War and the challenges they faced immediately after the war.

The civics content will include how the existence of slavery shaped the original Constitution; the definition of rights and civil liberties embodied in that document; and the new definition of citizenship through voting rights, equal protection, and other provisions of the post-Civil War Constitutional amendments.

Photo: a camper from 2007 poses at the window of an outbuilding at the Waveland plantation in KY.

 

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