Visualising slavery : art across the African diaspora

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Inside the Invisible’
PART I Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art 31
1 Lost and Found at the Swap Meet: Betye Saar and the Everyday Object - Lubaina Himid
2 Preserves Debra Priestly
3 What Goes without Saying - Hank Williams Thomas
4 Spectres in the Postcolonies: reimaging violence and resistance - Roshini Kempadoo
5 Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: a personal account - Keith Piper

PART II Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery 95
6 The Chattel Record Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art - Fionnghuala Sweeney
7 Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions - Alan Rica
8 Uncle Tom and the Problem of ‘Soft’ Resistance to Slavery - David Bindman
9 The After-Image Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture - Zoe Trodd

PART III African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation
10 Siting the Circum-Atlantic Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square - Geoff Quilley
11 Art and Caribbean Slavery: Modern visions of the 1763 Guyana Rebellion - Leon Wainwright
12 ‘The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth’: Richmon Barte's Memorials to Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalinse - Hanna Durkin

PART IV Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art
13 We Might Not Be Surprised: visiualising slavery and the slave ship in the works of Charles Campbell and Mary Evans - Eddie Chambers
14 ‘X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony’: a 'Lexicon of Liberations' versus 'My Slave History' in the paintings, installations and sketchbooks of Donald Rodney - Celeste-Marie Bernier
15 Reconfiguring African Trade Beads: the most beautiful, bountiful and marginalised sculptural legacy to have survived the Middle Passage - Marcus Wood
Afterword: Against the Grain
Notes on Contributors
Index
Image Plates