{"id":46290,"date":"2017-06-21T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46290"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:52:00","slug":"dayton-city-paper-profiles-wright-state-public-history-grad-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/21\/dayton-city-paper-profiles-wright-state-public-history-grad-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton City Paper profiles Wright State public history grad student"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hadley Drodge wants to use her master\u2019s degree program in public history to pursue a career in archiving and museum studies.<\/p><\/div>\n

Their story is powerful. Nearly 400 freed slaves\u2014including an infant less than 1-year-old and a woman over 100\u2014make a 500-mile pilgrimage on foot and by horse from a Virginia plantation to promised land in Ohio in 1846, only to be driven away and scattered by threats of violence.<\/p>\n

Hadley Drodge had heard the account, but it was only words. That is until one fateful day in the summer of 2016 when she arrived at a house in Rossville, Ohio, to pick up some photos and other artifacts for the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center from Helen Gilmore, who founded the Springcreek Rossville Historic House Museum and donated the collection.<\/p>\n

It was then that she realized she was about to see what few others had\u2014the visual aftermath of the storm-tossed history of the Randolph slaves, the photos that told their story. Chills ran down her spine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story I had heard was real, and it was right in front of me,\u201d Drodge says. \u201cWhen I went inside and saw all of the photographs, I just was overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, the Wright State University graduate student is assembling an exhibit about the Randolph slaves, which opened at the Afro-American Museum in Wilberforce, Ohio, on May 20 and will run until Nov. 25. She wants to concentrate more on the slaves than white slave-owner John Randolph, who has always received most of the attention.<\/p>\n

Read the entire story at daytoncitypaper.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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