28 Feb 2024 By Kelcey Buck
Michael Shiner was an enslaved man who labored at the Washington, D.C., Naval Yard. He wrote one of the only diaries of an enslaved person known to exist. Based on his writings that span 56 years and cover politics, family and natural phenomenon, a new short film by a team of Husker scholars depicts the day he saved his wife from the notorious slave traders, Franklin and Armfield.
View New short film, ‘The Diary of Michael Shiner,’ to premiere at Omaha Film Festival Feb. 29 Article