We’re simply thrilled to share that Jennifer Morgan, a member of the Freedom Seekers Advisory Board, has been named a class of 2024 MacArthur Fellow! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Deepening understanding of how the exploitation of enslaved women enabled the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America and the Black Atlantic.
The upcoming 250th Anniversary of American Independence provides an opportunity to think about what freedom meant to different people in Early America. Check out Caesar’s story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/caesar...
There’s a lovely introduction to Freedom Seekers, posted this morning at Common Place. Read here: commonplace.online/article/free...
Freedom Seekers will show how all kinds of men, women, and children who escaped were important actors in the challenge not just to their own enslavement but to slavery more broadly.
Our project’s own Simon Newman will be speaking with the Omohundro Institute’s online “digital coffeehouse” this coming Tuesday, September 24, at 12 p.m. EST Registration is free: omohundro.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/o...
This week, the Freedom Seekers team is reading, among others, the work of @debharkness.bsky.social#historians, we’re wondering how you play with the tensions between historical writing and fiction, as well as writing about place?
Our project’s own Simon Newman will be speaking with the Omohundro Institute’s online “digital coffeehouse” this coming Tuesday, September 24, at 12 p.m. EST Registration is free: omohundro.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/o...
Welcome to “Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond” (www.freedom-seekers.org)
