Terrell Brown, Curator and Artist Navigator Lawrence Brown, PhD, co-Curator and Researcher Baltimore Ascending From Municipal Slavery to Abolition Democracy
Installations for Baltimore Ascending Six Themes for the Baltimore Room • The Baltimore Slave Trade • Abolitionist Runaways and Conductors • Baltimore in the Civil War • Black Butterfly Heritage Tour • Afrofuturist Visionaries • Building the Abolition Democracy
The Baltimore Slave Trade Slave Jails & Pens on Pratt Street
The Baltimore Slave Trade Slave Trade Ads in The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Slave Trade A Scrolling Memorial Wall of Oceans of Kinfolk
Abolitionist Runaways and Conductors in the Underground Celebrating Stories of Courage and Resistance • Duggan’s Wharf—Harriet Tubman helped Tilly escape • Mount Clare Station—Henry “Box” Brown is ferried through here • President Street Station • Reginald F. Lewis Museum • Orchard Street Church— tunnel associated with the Underground Railroad
Baltimore in the Civil War Pratt Street Riot on April 19, 1861
Baltimore in the Civil War Black Love in Wartime
Baltimore in the Civil War U.S. Colored Troops and the Union Army Win an Abolitionist War
Baltimore in the Civil War The Abolition-Democracy as a Sweeping Movement
The Black Butterfly Heritage Tour Illuminating Baltimore’s Amazing History
Black Butterfly Heritage Tour (BBHT) “Baltimore: At the Heart of America’s History” • By providing this experiential journey, the BBHT reveals how Baltimore City can complete its metamorphosis from a slaveholding municipality to an abolition democracy. Participants of the BBHT will be encouraged to join the transformation. • Baltimore’s rich history deserves a physical home in the redevelopment of Harborplace, since the Inner Harbor is Baltimore’s front porch to the world. • The BBHT is a way to welcome visitors to the city, but also help current residents appreciate Baltimore’s location at the center of America’s history and destiny. • It can also serve as an economic driver by pointing people to the city’s growing ecosystem of Black-owned small businesses listed on the Black Butterfly Exchange.
Afrofuturist Visionaries Envisioning and Shaping the Baltimore of Tomorrow
Afrofuturist Visionaries Baltimore Imagined by Shakeer Franklin
Afrofuturist Visionaries MotherShip: MotherVerse by Jason Harris
Building the Abolition Democracy Connect with the Change Ecosystem