A Visual Story of
Modern Day Slavery
A Visual Story of
Modern Day Slavery
ENSLAVED
THE EXHIBITION
ENSLAVED, wins - Best Exhibition in State of Ohio 2016- CINCINNATI, OH (April 13, 2017) – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center won Best Exhibition (over $500,000 annual institutional budget category) at the Ohio Museums Association (OMA) annual awards program on April 2 for 2016 special exhibition, ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery.
Nominations for these awards are incredibly detailed. This in-depth process helps to illustrate how these institutions and individuals have gone “above and beyond” the normal call of duty to support their institution, serve their public and advance the cause of the museum community.
ENSLAVED, A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery documents the lives endured by slaves and celebrates the freedom they never dreamed possible. ENSLAVED is a powerful statement about one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. The images capture the experience of a moment lived in slavery, allowing the viewer to peek into the lives of those who are ENSLAVED. What we see are two undeniable truths – the extreme brutality of the situation, and the resilience of the human spirit. The exhibition portrays survivors who are now rebuilding their lives and helping others to freedom.
Look at the faces in Lisa Kristine’s photographs: people forced to do backbreaking work and endure mind-numbing pain. Then look closer. We see the hope that is often beaten and buried but almost never beyond reach. Lisa Kristine’s images grab the heart
I grew up like a neglected weed -- ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other
I believe everything that happened to me happened so that I can help others now.”
Look at the faces in Lisa Kristine’s photographs: people forced to do backbreaking work and endure mind-numbing pain. Then look closer. We see the hope that is often beaten and buried but almost never beyond reach. Lisa Kristine’s images grab the heart”
We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
I freed a thousand slaves and I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name: Modern Slavery.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.