Huron University College students will launch a website Tuesday highlighting their work to transcribe a manuscript diary written by anti-slavery priest Thomas Hughes from Dresden, Ont.
The Diary of Thomas Hughes project is a community-based learning partnership with the Diocese of Huron Archives and the “Promised Land” Community University Research Alliance (SSHRC). The website launch will be held from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Great Hall.
Students from the Historian’s Craft class digitized and created a scholarly transcription of the manuscript diary of the Reverend Thomas Hughes (1818-1876). Hughes was an anti-slavery teacher and priest who founded an interracial Anglican church and school in Dresden in 1859, under the auspices of the Colonial Church and School Society’s “Mission to Fugitive Slaves in Canada.”
Light refreshments will also be served.