A nice South African City image: African Amerian stories about the ways of Gullah people and former slaves at Boone Hall planatation. Image by denisbin Boone Hall Plantation. What is special about Boone Hall? It has a wonderful Virginian Live Oak alley which was planted from 1743 to 1843. The plantation has been continuously producing …
South Africa’s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance: Painting of a raider on horseback (bottom right) with a musket and domestic stock. A ‘rain-animal’ (top right) was likely summoned to wash away the raiders’ tracks. Courtesy of Sam Challis and Brent Sinclair-Thomson Not all South African rock art is ancient; some dates back …
Honouring the slaves experimented on by the ‘father of gynaecology’: This 1952 painting by Robert Thom is the only known representation of Lucy, Anarcha and Betsey. Pearson Museum, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine When she was just 17, a slave girl called Anarcha was “given” to an ambitious young medic, along with two other …
Reaction Presents Slaves & Escape The Fate – Beautiful Human Tour – a Beauty interest event taking place on 2018-10-06 18:00:00 in United States All tickets go on sale July 13 at 1:00pm CST Follow SLAVES: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter at WorkPlay Theatre 500 23rd St S Birmingham United States – Add your South African Event here. Have …
In Conversation with Susan Whitfield and Peter Sellars – Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Culture in Motion on the Silk Road – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-05-20 14:00:00 in United States In her book "Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road," author Susan Whitfield tells the stories of ten very …
One-day Conference: Slaves of Fashion: Archives, Art and Ethics – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-03-17 10:30:00 in United Kingdom To accompany The Singh Twins’ major new exhibition ‘Slaves of Fashion’, National Museums Liverpool and the University of Liverpool are hosting a one-day conference open to the public to explore the issues raised …
Female slaves’ stories from the 1830s echo today’s fight against patriarchy: Slaves' stories are not commonly known. But historical archives hold a clue to individual lives. Nic Bothma/EPA Towards the middle of 2016 a group of young women activists called on South Africans to “remember Khwezi”. They were referring to the woman who accused then-deputy-president …