Tag: Underground Railroad

  • Nation & World

    Second life for slave narrative

    Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.

    4 minutes
    Drawing of Leonid meteor shower, 1833.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard and slavery

    A student research project and a resulting booklet and website bring to light some troubling connections to the College in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The landscape of slavery

    Harvard historian and Radcliffe fellow Walter Johnson explored the intersecting landscapes of slavery in a talk at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fighting modern slave trade

    Katherine Chon found her passion in opposing human trafficking worldwide, and her Kennedy School degree will provide new strategies for doing so.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Stranger Fruit,’ indeed

    Artist Sanford Biggers completes his work “Constellation: Stranger Fruit,” which recalls the horrors of slavery even as it celebrates the stars above.

    2 minutes