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Aiding and Abetting? - The Piatt Family and the Anti-Slavery Movement
September 13, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Mac-A-Cheek Castle, West Liberty, Ohio
Space is limited for this free workshop but registration is required. Please register by calling the
Urbana University Library at 937-484-1409
With the support of a project at Urbana University and an internship funded by the Ohio Humanities Council, students, scholars and educators have worked to review primary and secondary source documents in the archive at Piatt Castles and elsewhere to investigate actions of Piatt family members related to slavery and the mid-19th century anti-slavery movement. We will present our findings through a case-study based investigative workshop at Mac-A-Cheek Castle on Monday, September 13, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. Although designed for college students, the general public is welcome to attend.
The workshop, is part of: trouble don’t last by Shelley Pearsall - Underground Railroad in Champaign County sponsored by Urbana University and funded by We Choose to Read Ohio with support from Piatt Castles Co. Inc. The Mac-A-Cheek Foundation and The Ohio Humanities Council.
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Our Story: Like the Mecoche division of the Shawnee people who occupied the land before them, the Piatts treasure the resources and the spirit of the valley they call home. In the 1820's, Judge Benjamin M. and Elizabeth Barnett Piatt moved their family from Cincinnati to the rolling hills of Logan County. Two of their children, Abram Sanders and Donn later built their own homes, Mac-A-Cheek and Mac-O-Chee in the country-side they knew as youths. These unique structures have become a private, family-owned museum that interprets over 200 years of history of the Ohio land and Ohio people.
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Consider Piatt Castles as a unique setting for a party, meeting, wedding or reunion.
These events and other special programs or group tours can be scheduled
even when the Castles are closed for the season.
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The Mac-A-Cheek Foundation for the Humanities at Piatt Casles is non-profit foundation
providing public programming at Piatt-Castles. It is a proud participant in:
