Watch Night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, is a sacred New Year’s Eve tradition in Black communities rooted in Christian worship and remembrance of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved and free African ...
By keeping watch, Black communities transformed a single night of waiting into a living theology of freedom. They taught time to remember. They taught faith to speak history aloud. In a nation that ...
On Dec. 31, 1862, cloaked by what likely was a cold, dark night in the dead of winter, groups of Americans of African descent — some free, others still enslaved — gathered together in secret. As a ...
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