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Global Abolition Starts With You
In honor of the 139th anniversary of the founding of the Red Cross, I would like to focus this week’s post on the contributions of women to the medical field. Throughout history, women serve as the moral backbone of many social movements in the United States, from both the abolitionist and suffrage movements of the 19th century to the Black Lives Matter and Me Too platforms of today.
On this day 159 years ago, John Brown was executed by way of hanging in Charles Town, Virginia (present day West Virginia). His crime? The failed raid of a military armory located in Harpers Ferry, VA.
“Landscape, Autumn, 1865” a small, pastoral painting in the midst of all the elements of the Kinsey Collection could easily be overlooked. But this painting by an artist who made Cincinnati his home for 30 years is a powerful statement about the determination of a free man of color, the grandson of a slave, to contribute to the conversation about the identity of America in the turbulent period of the 1840s, 50s and 60s.
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey to Speak at Exhibit Opening Reception MEDIA CONTACT: Will Jones (513) 333-7558 (513) 288-4834 wjones@nurfc.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CINCINNATI, OH (October 11, 2017) – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced today that Bernard and Shirley Kinsey will speak at the opening reception for The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection on Friday November […]
Contact: Will Jones (513) 333-7558 (513) 288-4834 wjones@nurfc.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Exhibition Schedule Redefines African American Identity and Representation in History and the Arts Rare Art, Artifacts, Manuscripts and Currencies Will Illustrate the Black Experience in America CINCINNATI, OH (August 22, 2017) –The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announces its upcoming exhibition […]
Ever since Donald Trump became President I have believed his greatest threat to our society and to our democracy is not necessarily his authoritarianism, but his essential ignorance – of history, of policy, of political process, of the Constitution.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center serves as the caretaker for many artifacts that help tell the story of historical slavery and abolitionist efforts in America. A truly remarkable set of artifacts that the Freedom Center has the pleasure of caring for is a collection of hand-written church records from Union Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. The records date back to 1831, thirty-four years before the end of the Civil War.
Valuing personal freedom for everyone, abolitionists truly believed that “All men are created equal.” They fought fiercely to end the institution of slavery, and through the cooperation of many, American slavery was abolished in 1865. One of the most important tools of the Abolitionist Movement was the printed word. Beginning in the 1830s, anti-slavery advocates printed countless numbers of newspapers, pamphlets and books that challenged the slave system.