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Wanted

Re-imagining the Enslaved: Eighteenth-Century Freedom Seekers as Twenty-First Century Sitters

by (author) Camille Turner & Camal Pirbhai

Publisher
Art Gallery of Ontario
Initial publish date
Jan 2017
Category
Fashion, Slavery, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894243995
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $9.95

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In this captivating collection of photographs, Camille Turner and Camal Pirbhai draw attention to 18th-century fugitive slave ads from Canada’s colonial archives. Juxtaposing reproductions of actual advertisements with contemporary photographs that reinterpret the details of the clothing worn by the freedom seekers as high-fashion, Turner and Pirbhai provoke a conversation about Canada’s often unacknowledged role in the transatlantic slave trade.

About the authors

Camille Turner combines Afrofuturism and historical research in her interventions, installations, and public engagements.

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Camal Pirbhai is a textile artist and designer

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