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Entitled, “Pathways to Freedom in the Americas: Shared Experiences Between Michigan, USA and Guerrero, México,” is a traveling exhibit from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Task Force. It depicts a different aspect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It tells the story of African-American slaves escaping south to freedom in México; African heritage as it continues to permeate Mexican culture—especially in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero; the migration of Mexicans to Michigan, and the culture as it has manifested in Southwest Detroit.

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Thanks to funding by the Institute Museum Library and Services (IMLS) WBC is expanding the research to include Maroon Societies in the Americas, specifically on the untold story of the history of the Southern Underground Railroad as well as the present day culture of Afro-Mexicans in Oaxaca.