There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
"I will run away" -- Running to be free. From A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery. With an appendix, containing a list of places visited by the author in ...
What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding ...
Kari Winter, professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the life of Jeffrey Brace, an enslaved man who ...
Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...
In the past we have advised you to take advantage of holiday gatherings and the summer-reunion season to collect information from your relatives about family history. Get your kin talking, pull out a ...
Harriet Jacobs endured seven years of hiding in an attic crawl space in order to escape the terror and misery of her life as a slave. "I lived in that little dismal ...
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