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Re-imagining the Enslaved: Eighteenth-Century Freedom Seekers as Twenty-First Century Sitters
- Publisher
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2017
- Category
- Fashion, Slavery, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894243995
- Publish Date
- Jan 2017
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
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.
Camal Pirbhai is a textile artist and designer