Amplifying 300+ years of resistance in the archives, preserving records of today's acts of resistance
This past Women’s History Month started out with me reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I have been thinking through fugitive and escape narratives, as they relate to the historical trajectory of Abolition …
Jan 16, 1856: They Fugitives being strongly armed and determined on to gaining their liberty or death, resolutely drew their Pistols (double barrelled) and said they would not be taken_ said that no gentleman would attack persons travelling As they …
Abolition found me when I was looking for answers. I sought a vision of freedom with historical context, that wrapped thought and action together, and Abolition did that seamlessly. I watched videos of police captured on cameras and phones ruthlessly …