Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 14:00
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Time: 2pm-4pm
Location: Art Windsor-Essex 401 Riverside Dr. West
Participants are responsible for their own transportation, noting that AWE is across the street from the main Windsor Transit terminal which is accessible by a majority of bus routes. AWE also has bike racks for those who will by cycling that day.
Contact lawstudentservices@uwindsor.ca for more information.
Time: 2pm-4pm
Location: Art Windsor-Essex 401 Riverside Dr. West
Participants are responsible for their own transportation, noting that AWE is across the street from the main Windsor Transit terminal which is accessible by a majority of bus routes. AWE also has bike racks for those who will by cycling that day.
Contact lawstudentservices@uwindsor.ca for more information.
About the exhibits
This evocative photographic essay celebrates the descendants of freedom-seekers who escaped slavery in the United States in the years before the American Civil War. Some came entirely alone and unaided; others found their way to Canada with the help of a clandestine network of “conductors” and “stations” called the “Underground Railroad.” Some 150 years later, starting in 2016, Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc began exploring the northern end of the “Underground Railroad,” presenting 30 images of descendants. Black and white, young and old, these are the grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren of once-enslaved African Americans who have contributed to the growth of this great nation.
The exhibition draws its title from a racist assessment of William Robinson, a Black journeyman, as written by a city official in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) in the records of the Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge (1869–1950). This sentiment echoes the centuries-long project of devaluing Black labour and the promise of autonomy. Combing historical texts, petitions, and archives ranging from the local to international, Bowen weaves together narrative threads of migration, power networks, and hierarchies of remembrance.
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