Dutch colonial promissory note to a former slaveholder, Suriname, 1863. Rijksmuseum.

Freedom

Volume XV, Number 1 | spring 2023

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It’s Not About You

Curtis White

Our Medical Liberties

Nadja Durbach

A Paradise for All

Astra Taylor

Map

Free Association

Miscellany

Don’t lose that number.

A free decision.

Mad utopian talk.

Free Willy.

Burning them in great numbers.

Ten pearls and an iron ring.

Abridged speech.

Better equipped than a democracy.

The bees didn’t make it just to give it away!

An awful, unspeakable monster.

Birth control.

Wolves, eagles, and jaguars.

A quiet escape.

Voices In Time

Sweet-Smelling Lies

c. 1884 | Hartford, CT

These Are Barbarous Times

c. 1860 | St. Petersburg

Barricades and Ramparts

c. 344 BC | Athens

The King’s Speech

1649 | London

Power to Move

1651 | Paris

Thinking Inside the Box

c. 1807 | Grasmere

Dance Break

1769 | Dorchester, MA

Too Late

c. 830 | Luoyang

Moral Beings

1837 | East Boylston, MA

Common Ground

1649 | Surrey

Body Politic

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Predestination

1936 | Bombay

Votes for Women

1913 | Hartford, CT

Power in Numbers

1967 | Oakland, CA

Live in Sin

1644 | London

Room to Think

1913 | Cambridge

The Sense of an Ending

1789 | London

Artful Dodging

1913 | New York City

Public Utility

1891 | Dublin

Pleasure Dome Decree

1668 | Nottinghamshire

Deliverance

1774 | Boston

Self-Control

1922 | Madras

Civilized Crimes

1842 | Marquesas Islands

Andrey Kurkov Picks Up His Pen

2022 | New York City

Emancipation Proclamation

1783 | Boston

Gilded Cage

1895 | Chicago

Force of Nature

c. 680 | Rabban Shapur

False Positive

1894 | St. Louis

We Refuse This Logic

1971 | Padua

New Deal

1879 | Washington, DC

Departure Gate

1896 | New York City

Sweet, Sane Nakedness

1877 | Camden, NJ

Company Observes Misery

c. 1695 | Montreal

Everything Is Better in Siberia

1886 | Russia

Arbitrary Restraint

1886 | London

Payment Due

1874 | Washington, DC

Context Sensitive

1919 | Washington, DC

Escape Mechanism

1848 | Macon, GA

Din and Tonic

1930 | Washington, DC

Primary Source

c. 420 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

The Talk

Four Freedoms

As Free as the Gods

Great Escapes

Ghost in the Machine

Antislavery Road Show

Artistic License

Free for All

Home Free

Contributors

Conversations

Knights of Labor & Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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