During the fall 2023 semester, Rare Books and Special Collections displayed this exhibition, which explores the fraught, circuitous and unfinished course of emancipation over the nineteenth century in Cuba and the United States. People – enslaved individuals and outside observers, survivors and resistors, and activists and conspirators – made and unmade emancipation, a process that remains unfinished and unrealized.
This digital exhibition is a permanent way for visitors near and far to experience the exhibit.
This exhibit is curated by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator, and Erika Hosselkus, Latin American Studies Curator and Associate University Librarian. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment.