Tag: Underground Railroad

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    3–4 minutes
    Drawing of Leonid meteor shower, 1833.
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The landscape of slavery

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

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    ‘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.

    2–3 minutes