a list of lectures related to the tag "abolition" http://listeningtowords.com/tag.php?id=648 2013-05-22T21:57:16+01:00 text/html 2007-11-07T16:22:19+01:00 http://www.listeningtowords.com/index.php Abaigeal Duda http://www.listeningtowords.com/lecture.php?id=1556 From the <a href="http://forum.wgbh.org">WGBH Forum Network</a>: "Several women from Salem promoted abolition by leading efforts to obtain freedom, rights, and material well-being for African-American. Art historian Abaigeal Duda discusses how this inter-racial progress culminated in a movement that writer and artist Lucy Cleveland (1780-1866) concisely captured with the pronouncement Free! Part of Peabody Essex Museum's permanent collection, Free! Cleveland's textile sculpture depicts a smiling figure holding forth the proclamation of freedom. It was likely created in 1863 following Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.This program is made possible with support from the Lowell Institute."<br /><br />Formats: mp3, real video, real audio