Dare to be Free, Re-telling the Story explores , amongst others, the figures who worked to combat the enslavement of people with particular reference but not exclusive to France the third largest of the slave-trading groups after Portugal and Great Britain. Credit is given to the publication “Oser la Liberté, Figures des Combats contre L’Esclave”, from which the contents provided much information and inspiration. An artistic transformation and interpretation presents a different visual narrative of empowerment from the “age of discovery to the age of abolition” and beyond …..From the “Epiphany of the Black Magus circa 1500 to Helidorus’s An Ethiopian Story in the seventeenth - century European Art.”