LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Slavery

Slavery

African Slavery and Contemporary African Art
Essay on the Contemporary African Art site.
The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
Art of Enslavement
Essay and images from CUNY Academic Commons.
Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past
Site "investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary monuments created for public spaces."
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain
Website from Yale Center for British Art to accompany exhibition.
First Blacks in the Americas: Manuscripts and Photograph Collection
Photographs of architecture relating to slavery in the Dominican Republic. From City College of New York via JSTOR.
Geography of Slavery
Contains more than 4,000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants, drawn from newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
An Incomplete but Very Long White Art History of Slavery
Essay on Seattle Artist League site.
Repositioning the Voices of Enslaved People through Art
Essay on Art UK site.
Representing Slavery: Rereading the Visual Narrative
Online exhibition from Princeton University class.
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War
A very old website from the University of Virginia but lots of scholarly information.
Seeing Slavery: How Paintings Make Words Look Different
Essay from "Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life."
Slavery Images
"A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora."
Subversion and the Art of Slavery Abolition
Online exhibition from the New York Public Library, curated by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Sydney Howard Gay's "Record of Fugitives"
Records of arrival of fugitive slaves in 1855 and 1856. From Columbia University Libraries.

Laura Plantation: Housing for enslaved persons. Vacherie, Louisiana. 19th century. Photo by Karen Bouchard.