Through Darkness to Light
Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
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West Baton Rouge Museum 845 North Jefferson Avenue, Port Allen, Louisiana 70767
Jeanine Michna-Bales
Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River, LA; “They worked me all de day, Widout one cent of pay; So I took my flight in de middle ob de night, When de moon am gone away.” – chorus of Geo. W. Clark Liberty Song
Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated 100,000 enslaved persons escaped their captors, taking the famed journey through the Underground Railroad—which many consider the first time people of different races and faiths worked together in harmony for freedom and justice.
After a decade of meticulously researching these brave fugitives, photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of photographs documenting roughly 2,000 miles of actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers passed—imagining the literal and metaphorical road to freedom in America through the eyes of those who made the epic journey.
At the West Baton Rouge Museum, the exhibit will feature Louisiana freedom stories, including an original letter from 1817 for a man who escaped from Pointe Coupee Parish. The collection will be on display until May 25. westbatonrougemuseum.com.
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