Essential viewing for scholars of early modern Hispanic art, colonial visual culture, and the Black Atlantic.
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#FaultLinesExhibition #ArtAndEmpire #VisualizingSlavery #CarnegieMuseumOfArt
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Gonzales-Day: Mary Seacole & Mm. Adélaïde Julie Mirleau de Neuville: we read race into objects #VisualizingSlavery http://t.co/mXVpR8ASDI
Gonzales-Day draws attention to unseen museum objects in storage. #VisualizingSlavery www.kengonzalesday.com/projects/bonegrassboy/12...
Gonzales-Day: palace in Potsdam, blackamoor garden statuary. Original & reproduction #VisualizingSlavery http://t.co/tjYSDtWSRE
Slavery&PublicDisplay #VisualizingSlavery
Ken Gonzales-Day @scrippscollege on 18thC racial representations in Prussia
ProspectsOfEmpire @LewisWalpoleLib -TorridZone,orBlessings ofJamaica 2/3 #VisualizingSlavery images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneITEM.asp http://t.co/e0roXTmx28
ProspectsofEmpire exhibit looks amazing-mixes @LewisWalpoleLib historical material & recent work by @JoscelynGardner 1/3 #VisualizingSlavery
#VisualizingSlavery Prospects of Empire:Slavery&Ecology in 18thC Atlantic Britain upcoming exhibit @LewisWalpoleLib http://t.co/7kSN6NPUeA
1796 edition @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/aclassicaldicti01grosgoog #VisualizingSlavery 2/2
Terms like chimney chops, snowball, lily white found in Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 1/2 #VisualizingSlavery
Wheeler's abstract archive delves into canting dictionaries, comedic theater,etc for slang referencing 18thCBlackBritons #VisualizingSlavery
Wheeler: "A Colloquial Archive of Color-Conscious Insult and Slang in Eighteenth-Century Britain" #VisualizingSlavery
Images via @Wikimedia & @britishmuseum www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highl... #VisualizingSlavery 3/3
that go beyond the man of property (eg Equiano) or abject supplicant (eg Wedgwood medallion) 2/3 #VisualizingSlavery http://t.co/wQIvUXixph
Hartman considers possibilities of artists & writers to imagine radical, insurgent visions of enslaved 1/3 #VisualizingSlavery
Hartman "Archival Fictions" on the extant vs the "imagined archive" #VisualizingSlavery
Draper: future work @LBS_at_UCL includes more than just the end of slavery & find more information on enslaved people #VisualizingSlavery
Many are people of color, eg Equiano is listed. West Indian merchant, Jamaica Landowner, work better as search terms 2/2 #VisualizingSlavery
Draper: @LBS_at_UCL working w/ @odnb to make slavery more visible; currently only 21 results for slave-owners search 1/2 #VisualizingSlavery
Draper: Slavery a significant contributor to industrial revolution; how to show these in biographies, histories, etc #VisualizingSlavery
Draper: w/ apprenticeship+cash compensation, 70-75% paid by enslaved, taxpayers, i.e. people other than the slave owners #VisualizingSlavery
Draper: Rather than gradual emancipation of New England, UK emancipation was through compulsory purchase by government #VisualizingSlavery
Nicholas Draper " @LBS_at_UCL :making the archive public"#VisualizingSlavery http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ http://t.co/QiETtGM25a
Day 2: Slavery & the Archive: Nicholas Draper, Saidiya Hartman, & Roxann Wheeler #VisualizingSlavery
Loved that moderator Forrester brought up the excising the turban in film portrait in Belle #VisualizingSlavery
Chi-ming Yang gave an amazing paper "Bodies like Lacquer" on racial difference based on ornamental shine #VisualizingSlavery
Image @Wikimedia Scipio Africanus restored gravestones in St Mary's parish church, Bristol UK #VisualizingSlavery 2/2 http://t.co/hBPLslyENC
Walvin has done fascinating work on English gravestones for black people and references in parish records 1/2 #VisualizingSlavery
Walvin cites 2 of my favorites Anderson's Mahogany:The Costs of Luxury & Byrne's Real Jane Austen:A Life in Small Things #VisualizingSlavery
Walvin: Note glossy mahogany table Copley’s Paul Revere. Image via @Wikimedia; Orig. @mfaboston #VisualizingSlavery http://t.co/7KiXLIsm7Q
