Name: Songs In Flight
Start: 2024-04-03T19:30:00
Location: Hayti Heritage Center

Karen Slack

Reginald Mobley

Will Liverman

Howard Watkins

Kimille Howard

Shawn Okpebholo

Duke Performances

In 2019, Cornell University started “Freedom on the Move,” a database of “runaway ads” from the United States’ early newspapers—names, dates, descriptions, rewards. The database notes that it compiles “thousands of stories of resistance that have never been accessible in one place. Created to control the movement of enslaved people, the ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives—their personality, appearance, and life story. Taken collectively, the ads constitute a detailed, concise, and rare source of information about the experiences of enslaved people.” (Cornell Department of History’s Edward Baptist, primary investigator for FOTM) These advertisements also provide a testament to their bravery: each of these people in the over 30,000 entries attempted self-emancipation.

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Songs In Flight

Hayti Heritage Center