Our Black Experience Exhibit Series features stories that illuminate Black history in the Capital Region and beyond. Designed to travel, the pop-up exhibits move from one community space to the next,…
Author/Illustrator: Henry Cole Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2012 A young girl’s courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn,…
Author/Illustrator: Nathan Hale Publisher: Amulet Books, 2015 This graphic novel, in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, tells the true story of Araminta Ross, an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After…
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Michele Wood Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2020 Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.”…
Author: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan Publisher: Cricket Books, 2003. The Underground Railroad was meant to be a set of secret pathways, and its traces have been obscured by time.…
Author: Allison Lassieur Capstone Press, 2008 Starting in colonial times, thousands of African people were kidnapped and brought to the United States, where they were enslaved. Those who escaped were…