Event Category: Archives of Resistance

Roda, a nineteen-year-old Black woman fled her Missouri enslaver in 1855. The distance to reach the Canadian border from where...

Join us for a screening of PÉLAGIE X, a new short film by two-time Academy Award® winning Breakwater Studios. The...

Drop in for a collaborative digital transcribe-a-thon in celebration of the birthday of Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist, orator, and U.S....

Drop in for a collaborative digital transcribe-a-thon in celebration of the birthday of Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist, orator, and U.S....

Dred and Harriet Scott’s suit for freedom, which ended in the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Decision, began right here in...

Drop in for a collaborative digital transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birthday. We will be transcribing the correspondence of Frederick...

Based upon extraordinary true events, this is the story of Eliza Rone, an enslaved woman who, in 1856, worked for...

“People don’t follow titles, they follow courage.” William Wells Brown In celebration of Washington University Libraries’ recent acquisition of a...