The Drinking Gourd Project

Education + Learning

One of our goals is to create educational resources and tools for schools and community groups.

Recommended resources include:
Elise Lemire, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Sanda Petrulionis, To Set This World Right: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, Cornell University Press, 2006.

Barbara Elliot and Janet Jones, Concord: Its Black History 1636-1860, Concord Public Schools, 1976.

Special Thank You to Leslie Wilson, Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library.

Help Fund this Project!

Tax-deductible donations may be sent to the The Drinking Gourd Project, P.O. Box 506, Concord, MA 01742. You can also make an online donation through PayPal. We are a 501c3 organization.

Join our Mailing List

Subscribe to our feed

Find us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter

LINKS