Watch: Reliquary of Blackness Video
Since 2017, Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke has received several grants from Mass Humanities to support an extensive history of the city’s Black population. A new video, directed by Evan Goodchild and produced by Mass Humanities, chronicles the work of historian Erika Slocumb, Executive Director Megan Seiler, Doug Griffin, and many community members to produce, Reliquary […]
Join Us for “Education Means Emancipation”
Learning to read and write fueled Frederick Douglass’s desire for freedom. It was through literature that Douglass acquired the language to explain what he had already learned through lived experience: that slavery was inhumane, liberation was everyone, and education was a pathway. In explaining his transcendence from literate and enslaved to self-taught and free, he […]
