Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony is a new exhibition and series of community events by Cycle 9 Artist In Residence Noelle Lorraine Williams. It highlights Black women’s resistance, survival, and freedom-making across the Americas, reframing dominant narratives of the American Revolution.

Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony asks important questions about historical memory, including who is recognized as a revolutionary or freedom fighter in American history and whose stories are remembered and honored. The exhibition recognizes the documented 914 Black women who gained their freedom during the Revolutionary War and were evacuated with British forces to Nova Scotia, situating their experiences within the wider histories of colonialism, war, and emancipation.

Learn more at https://www.projectforemptyspace.org/blackrevolutionarywomen