Gallery Guided Tour
10:30 AM & 3:00 PM
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Explore extraordinary stories through furniture, pottery, silverwork, and portraiture.

Salem During Emancipation: Guided Tour
11:00 AM & 2:00 PM
Salem Tavern

Tours focusing on Salem’s path from enslavement to liberation. Walking tours will end at the St. Philips African Moravian Church.

Harriet Jacobs: MESDA Spot Talk
11:00 AM & 3:30 PM
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Explore the life of author Harriet Jacobs through replicas of the very same rooms she lived in.

Brick Making Demonstration
St. Philips African Moravian Church

Witness the same techniques used in Salem for brick making, and learn how Salem’s African descended congregation built the town and their church.

Historical Games
Boys’ School

Learn about Moravian education for all resident Salem children and have fun with the same games they were playing in the 1800s!

African-Influenced Cooking
Salem Tavern

See cooking demonstrations paying homage to the African recipes that Salem’s African descended residents brought to the community.

Bethy and the Afro-Moravian Church
John Vogler House

Learn about Bethy, a domestic enslaved worker living through emancipation, and her involvement in the Afro-Moravian church community.

Peter Oliver: Potter and Free Man
Single Brothers’ House

Explore the story of Moravian brother Peter Oliver, the potter who purchased his freedom and started his own farm.

Penny, Christian, and The Doctor
Doctor’s House

Learn about the Black history of the Doctor’s House through enslaved workers Penny and Christian David, the botanist.