Emancipation had different meanings to African Americans and White Americans. It meant different things to the different classes within the African American community. The large class of freedpeople ...
The inspiration for the exhibit was based upon the artists’ interpretation of John Ward’s 1863 statuette “The Freedman.” It is considered to be the first bronze rendering of a liberated enslaved ...
THERE are two tendencies in the direction of the emancipation of woman to-day, and there are two kinds of emancipation possible. On the one side, there is simple impatience with restraint; on the ...
When Amanda Kemp set out to write a play about the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, she saw it as a performance piece, with dancers, music and the actual words of the Emancipation ...