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

Freedom

Volume XV, Number 1 | spring 2023

It’s Not About You

Curtis White

A Paradise for All

Astra Taylor

Our Medical Liberties

Nadja Durbach

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Deliverance

1774 | Boston

Primary Source

c. 420 BC | Athens

These Are Barbarous Times

c. 1860 | St. Petersburg

Civilized Crimes

1842 | Marquesas Islands

Escape Mechanism

1848 | Macon, GA

Predestination

1936 | Bombay

Arbitrary Restraint

1886 | London

Public Utility

1891 | Dublin

Dance Break

1769 | Dorchester, MA

Room to Think

1913 | Cambridge

Thinking Inside the Box

c. 1807 | Grasmere

The King’s Speech

1649 | London

Sweet-Smelling Lies

c. 1884 | Hartford, CT

Pleasure Dome Decree

1668 | Nottinghamshire

Context Sensitive

1919 | Washington, DC

Company Observes Misery

c. 1695 | Montreal

Too Late

c. 830 | Luoyang

The Sense of an Ending

1789 | London

False Positive

1894 | St. Louis

Common Ground

1649 | Surrey

Andrey Kurkov Picks Up His Pen

2022 | New York City

Barricades and Ramparts

c. 344 BC | Athens

Departure Gate

1896 | New York City

Force of Nature

c. 680 | Rabban Shapur

Artful Dodging

1913 | New York City

Self-Control

1922 | Madras

Power in Numbers

1967 | Oakland, CA

New Deal

1879 | Washington, DC

We Refuse This Logic

1971 | Padua

Votes for Women

1913 | Hartford, CT

Power to Move

1651 | Paris

Payment Due

1874 | Washington, DC

Live in Sin

1644 | London

Sweet, Sane Nakedness

1877 | Camden, NJ

Gilded Cage

1895 | Chicago

Body Politic

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Din and Tonic

1930 | Washington, DC

Moral Beings

1837 | East Boylston, MA

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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