Ceremony for twice emancipated Edmund Moody. He escaped slavery and boarded a RI whaler in 1862; then escaped the whaler in New Zealand in 1864. St Andrew’s Church, Mangonui, NZ. Historian and vocalist Vienna Carroll made Edmund Moody come alive for all.
Quakers helped. Mostly, Black people Freed Ourselves through the "Slave Grapevine." Watch the story of African Queens kidnapped, enslaved and resisting. Plus, U.S. Colored Troops and the Slave Grapevine in the Black freedom struggle in the U.S.
Read a brief history of slavery and African rebellions in America freeing ourselves.