The Freedom Activist Archive by Delicia Daniels, Ph.D. Main Menu Freedom Activists: Visual History of Federal Bureau of Investigation Records: The Vault Freedom Activist: James Freedom Activist: Catherine Freedom Activist: Nicholas or Charles Freedom Activist: Celestine Freedom Activist: John Charleston Freedom Activist: Narcisse Freedom Activists: Bill and Julie Freedom Activist: Grace or Gracy Freedom Activist: Nelson Freedom Activist: Bill or William Freedom Activist: Jo Freedom Activist: Phil Freedom Activist: Kitty Freedom Activist: Beauchamps Freedom Activist: Charlotte Freedom Activist: Henry Freedom Activist: Surprise Freedom Activist: Sophie Freedom Activist: Sarah Freedom Activist: Nancy Freedom Activist: John Freedom Activist: John Freedom Activist: Gabriel Freedom Activist: Nancy Freedom Activist: Davis

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Time is not even linear...so trauma is not something that has passed from the past. Trauma is the cybernetic patterns that keep repeating itself ecologically, spiritually and corporeally..the invitation is to listen, is to humble ourselves enough to fall down to the earth and listen differently. Listen to the ancestry, listen to the world around us we have numbed as a resource.
-Bayo Akomolaf

The Freedom Activist Archive establishes a key aspect of African American Culture currently underdeveloped in government archives by extending and altering the way we engage the narratives of “runaway slaves.” This archive begins with the transformation of an 1831 New Orleans antebellum newspaper titled The Bee.  Twenty-Seven “runaways slave ads” were collected to complete this assessment.  The men and women in these advertisements are according to Marisa Fuentes, “spectacularly violated, objectified, disposable, hypersexualized, and silenced” (5). For example, The Bee currently categorizes Catherine, a “runaway slave” as “a young American girl” with a “small size, ” “thick lips,” and a “down look.”  To counter this cruelty, The Freedom Activist Archive, presented through Scalar, a digital platform, conceals the cruel aforementioned terms (i.e. thick lips) with a visual method of erasure and highlights appropriate categories such as Political Clothing and Escape Measures based on unobserved language in the original ad.

The Google Map shown above projects a spiritual and geographic coordinate system. 

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Freedom Activist: James
  2. Freedom Activist: Catherine
  3. Freedom Activist: Celestine
  4. The Freedom Activist Archive
  5. Freedom Activist: Nicholas or Charles
  6. Freedom Activists: Bill and Julie
  7. Freedom Activist: Narcisse
  8. Freedom Activist: John Charleston
  9. Freedom Activist: Nelson
  10. Freedom Activist: John
  11. Freedom Activist: Nancy
  12. Freedom Activist: Phil
  13. Freedom Activist: John
  14. Freedom Activist: Surprise
  15. Freedom Activist: Kitty
  16. Freedom Activist: Beauchamps
  17. Freedom Activist: Sarah
  18. Freedom Activist: Jo
  19. Freedom Activist: Sophie
  20. Freedom Activist: Gabriel
  21. Freedom Activist: Bill or William
  22. Freedom Activist: Grace or Gracy
  23. Freedom Activist: Henry
  24. Freedom Activist: Davis
  25. Freedom Activist: Charlotte
  26. Freedom Activist: Nancy
  27. old Freedom Activist: Sophie

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