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‘Sowing History’: Art exhibit about the slave trade in the northern U.S., Canada on display at UMass
It’s also a story of “bravery, friendship and never forgetting who you were,” reads Emmanuel Nkuranga, the author of the tale ...
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Born Into Slavery, Bill Traylor Would Become a Leading Light of Self-Taught Art
Image source: Art Resource ... from slavery at the end of the Civil War when he was about 12 years old, but his family remained on their former owner’s Alabama cotton plantation, and he spent ...
A plantation museum spotlighting the truths of slavery has lost federal grants in ‘furtherance of the president’s agenda’
Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the ...
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A plantation museum spotlighting the truths of slavery has lost federal grants in ‘furtherance of the president’s agenda’
Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI.