Closing January 15th, 2022,
Subversion & The Art of Slavery at the
Schomburg, 515 Lenox at the corner of 135th Street. Art denotes strategy, ingenuity, and imagination. While slaveholders and vigilantes threatened and attempted to control Black bodily autonomy in various ways across the Atlantic world, enslaved people and their allies artfully countered this malevolence via everyday and more formally coordinated kinds of resistance. With a principal focus on American and British efforts, this exhibition highlights how slavery abolitionists used a diversity of art, including rebellion, speeches and pamphlets, novels, slave narratives, newspapers, poetry, music, and the visual arts, to agitate for enslaved peoples’ right to liberty and equality. More details on public weekend hours on the official Schomburg site:
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HarlemBespoke.com 2021
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