IN DETROIT YOU LOOK SOUTH TO SEE NORTH IS FREEDOM
Windsor will be in AWE of photo show of descendants of the Underground Railroad Underground descendant Darryl Hogan by Stephen Weir Black Heritage Society’s Dorothy Abbott and famed photographer Yuri Dojc look out the windows of the Art Windsor-Essex public art gallery (AWE) at the city of Detroit. For the next seven months, their new photographic exhibition of descendants of the Underground Railroad celebrates the direction of freedom—South. (The gallery sits on the edge of the Detroit River in downtown Windsor, south of Detroit). On Thursday night, Abbott and Dojc will open their well-traveled photographic exhibition celebrating the descendants of freedom-seekers who escaped slavery in the United States before the American Civil War. Some made the journey entirely alone; others found their way to Canada with the help of a clandestine network of "conductors" and "stations" called the "Underground Railroad." Many passed through Detroit and into Windsor...