LAWRENCE — Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics will host a traveling exhibit titled “Free at Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America” beginning next Monday. KU graduate and author Jimmy Johnson will present the opening program, “The Long Road to Freedom: Escaping Slavery in ‘Little Dixie,’ ” next Wednesday at 3 at the Dole Institute. A public reception will follow at 4. Johnson will tell how his great-grandfather escaped to Kansas from slavery on a Platte County, Mo., plantation. He joined the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry during the Civil war and after the war, became a successful farmer in Douglas County. The exhibit, program and reception are free and open to the public. The exhibit runs to June 3. Dole Institute’s Judy Sweets noted that Lawrence was the epicenter of abolitionist activity in Kansas during the territorial days.
Tuesday, May 3, 2:30 p.m.
