Exhibit:

Black Lives Matter

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A Black Man Ripping Apart a Map of North and South Slave Beats Master A child is used as a prop for slavery A plee for freedom
painting of an overseer on a horse whipping an enslaved person as an enslaved woman and children are forced to watch Correctional officer on horse patrolling a prison farm as imprisoned people pick cotton Member of the black panther party serving breakfast to kids Community Members celebrating outside the burning 3rd precinct in Minneapolis, 2020 Red and green map of the United States with writing various cases of violence placed on the map

Create galleries of images related to the Black Lives Matter unit by researching and gathering images related to our readings here. Please see the assignment prompt in Canvas for more info.

Images in this Exhibit

Chains of Despair : Voices Unchained in America

INTRODUCTION

The institution of slavery in the United States stands as a clear reminder of a period when human dignity was compromised. It denied human rights and freedom to millions of African Americans that were defined by violence and dehumanization. The endurance of this institution, persisting from the early colonial days until its abolition in 1865 showcases the resilience and resistance of the enslaved.

Poets and writers often took up a pen to speak out against the injustices of slavery. Elizabeth Barret Browning's, “The Runaway Slave at...
Fighting for Emancipation: The Art of Freed Slaves
A Black Man Ripping Apart a Map of North and South Slave Beats Master A child is used as a prop for slavery A plee for freedom

There has always been a struggle for the rights of African slaves for as long as there has been white people stealing them from their respective lands. Naturally as the movement itself grew and more people freed themselves, anti-slave movements began to pop up all across the nation, especially those in the North where discussions often took place for abolishing the act. Tensions would often rise between the enslaved and the slavers, causing the birth of many pro slavery messages, art pieces, and advertising. The constant pushback didn’t just push the freed slaves into high gear, but...
Forgotten Strokes: Black Erasure in 16-18th century British Art

Introduction: 

Throughout the span of art history, from around the 1600s to 1800s, we are faced with the troubling erasure of Black people in paintings. Although this period in art history was one with a lot of careful detail and rich artistic expression there was neglect of representation of Black people. Black individuals were rarely a main subject in British art, if they were included in these aristocratic type paintings, they were usually in small roles or sometimes even “erased” from the painting. Black individuals were...
A Revolutionary Salute: Abolition over the Ages
painting of an overseer on a horse whipping an enslaved person as an enslaved woman and children are forced to watch Correctional officer on horse patrolling a prison farm as imprisoned people pick cotton Member of the black panther party serving breakfast to kids Community Members celebrating outside the burning 3rd precinct in Minneapolis, 2020 Red and green map of the United States with writing various cases of violence placed on the map

After the abolition of chattel slavery and the reversal of reconstruction, there was a shift in mechanisms through which slavery was legally maintained. In the United States for instance, as Black Codes were destroyed by the 14th amendment, Jim Crow laws continued to enforce racial disparities. This economic and legal disenfranchisement helped lay ground for sharecropping, a system of employment which kept people bound to work and live in unhealthy conditions through unpayable debts. Racism also has manifested in the form of discriminatory policing, providing an avenue for people to be...