Fashioning for Freedom: Layers of Liberty
February 28, 2026 @ 7:00PM — 8:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Hamilton Hall: 9 Chestnut Street Salem, MA 01970 Get Directions
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Join History Alive and Hamilton Hall for a celebratory, historical runway of Black creativity and activism.
Discover the stories of abolitionists, artists, and entrepreneurs (including members of the Remond family, Anna Douglass, Charlotte Forten, and Edmonia Lewis) who helped shape American history. Explore the ways these creative and talented historical figures "fashioned" their own unique expressions of freedom.
Front-row seat ticket holders will have access to a post-show salon where they can experience conversation and photos with actors, enjoy refreshments, and be led in a “Cakewalk” by performers. Actor Chloe Agyare will be leading this experience and says this about the dance, “People often think the cakewalk is a dance that the rich did to make fun of people of color, but instead the cakewalk was a dance done by the enslaved in the 19th century to make fun of their oppressors…It was a dance to express freedom from oppression and freedom of expression.”
All tickets include light refreshments during intermission.
Photo credit: Hannah Spangler
A big thank you to our sponsors!
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