Challenging Racism / April 6, 2022
Often I find inspiration from those who lived in the past – some who only recently have received appropriate recognition. One such person is Vina Curry, “free Black abolitionist, who risked her life as an operative on the Underground Railroad by providing her late husband’s ‘free papers’ to at least fifteen men escaping slavery. As a widowed mother, Curry lived and worked as the washerwoman at New Garden Boarding School beginning in the late 1830s.…