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North is Freedom
The Legacy of the Underground Railroad
A photographic journey by Yuri Dojc
This evocative photographic essay celebrates the descendants of freedom-seekers who escaped slavery in the United States and fled to Canada in the years before the American Civil War. Approximately 30,000 fugitive slaves followed the North Star" to freedom, using a network of clandestine routes which became known as the "Underground Railroad."
Some 150 years later, Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc explores the northern end of the "Underground Railroad" and presents a series of 24 portraits of descendants. Young and old, black and white, these are the grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren of once-enslaved African Americans who settled in Canada many generations ago.
North is Freedom is both a commemoration and an homage in which Dojc illustrates the power of art to convey a narrative that takes us from the past, to the present, and into the future. |