Passage

Passage

Hagstrom, Fred

Passage uses images and texts from two historical books that were important for building opposition to the slave trade: An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade by Thomas Clarkson, 1788, and Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Person of Color by A. Mott, 1837. Both books presented stark evidence of the cruelty of the slave trade. The Clarkson diagrams showing the conditions of how people were transported for the middle passage was a particularly important visual symbol for the abolition movement. Passage combines the diagram images with archival photographs of people who lived part of their lives as slaves -- Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on March 26, 2015

2016

Saint Paul, Minnesota : Strong Silent Type Press

Slave trade in art

Slave trade--Africa--Pictorial works

English

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 41 x 38 cm

39362050816437

Art Spec Coll Fl

N7433.4.H34 P37 2016

Case-bound with cloth over spine and back cover. Front cover is paper over board with image and title screen printed

Printed in silkscreen on Rives paper