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A Visual Story of
Modern Day Slavery

ENSLAVED
THE EXHIBITION

ENSLAVED wins Best Exhibition in State of Ohio 2016

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.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate
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

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  • 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
    Harriet Tubman - Slave and Abolitionist in the United States
  • I believe everything that happened to me happened so that I can help others now.”
    Holly Smith - Survivor of Sex Trafficking in the United States
  • 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”
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate
  • We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free.
    - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    - Abraham Lincoln, Politician, President of the United States
  • Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
    - Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Political Philosopher
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
  • If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
    - Booker T. Washington, Emancipated Slave, Education Reformer
  • 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.
    - Toni Morrison, Author
  • I freed a thousand slaves and I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
    - Harriet Tubman, Escaped Slave, Abolitionist
  • I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name: Modern Slavery.
    -Barak Obama, President of the United States
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
    - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.
    -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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