Allies for Freedom, publishers
Mean to be Free:  John Brown's Black Nation Campaign
John Brown's plans to liberate
enslaved people in the United
States told in art and poetry,
story and song.

Author and photographer:  
Jean Libby

Director of narration and voice
of Mary Ann Shadd: Margaret
Wilkerson
cover image art by Malaquias Montoya and students at the California College of Arts and
Crafts in Oakland.  Mural no longer extant.  Photo by Jean Libby, 1982

Produced by the University of California African
American Studies Department and UC Berkeley TV and
Radio Studio.  Creative director:  Roy Thomas

The script uses primary sources of the actual words of
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and
Annie Brown with over 400 archival and contemporary
images.  A student ensemble reading of Robert C. Hayden's
"Runagate Runagate" depicts the Underground Railroad.




American Biography
DVDs by Jean Libby and
Elisabeth Libby are
available by mail.


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