Exhibition details
Anti-slavery advocates immersed themselves in letter, pamphlet, and speech writing campaigns and founded newspapers, despite known and unknown dangers.
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Visual artists created illustrations, paintings, and photographs that featured the mundane yet absolutely reprehensible aspects of slavery to alert everyday citizens to the institution’s many horrors. Novels, slave narratives, poetry, and music were also significant and often encoded with insurgent messages.
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY 10037
Image: David Hunter Strother, Osman, a escaped slave in the North Carolina part of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1856