Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Story - Children Black London allows us to

Black London allows us to see London anew

taking place at the Barbican from 22 Jun-3 Sep 2023

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The original drawing illustrates the plans for the terrace blocks

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Story - Children Black London allows us toAt the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love, common law and transient marriages, queer identities and single