Sentences with phrase «century slave ship»

Another related installation is a large glass disc, titled Lotus (2007) that refers to the Buddhist symbol but also to the slave trade: etched in glass, the filigree pattern contained in each petal of the lotus flower is made up of diagrams of the placement of human bodies in the cargo hold of an eighteenth - century slave ship.

Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones), visits African prisoners trapped in a 17th - century slave ship and incites a fiery revolt by revealing to them the future of the black race in America.

Itâ $ ™ s as if I have been released from leg chains in the hold of an 18th century slave ship and transported to a world of such natural beauty that I canâ $ ™ t find a point to begin observing it for fear that I will miss something in another location.

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It started with «negative screening»; he gives the example of Quakers, centuries ago, vetoing the use of their funds to finance ships involved in the slave trade.

diary - style script for five 17th - century characters, 4 slaves plus ship's captain; reading levels 2 and 3.

In this intriguing introduction to historical archaeology, Greene spotlights five sites of recent investigation: the Jamestown Fort, the sunken seventeenth - century ship La Belle, the slave quarters at Jefferson's Monticello, the Montana battlefield of Little Bighorn, and the Five Points neighborhood in New York City, a notorious slum in the mid-1800s.

Her installation is called Typhoon Coming On, and is an uneasy 21st - century remake of Turner's 1840 masterpiece, often known simply as Slave Ship, but called by him Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

In one of his most celebrated works, Wilson covered himself in stamps and went to a post-office asking to be placed in the mail — a performative homage to Henry Brown, the 19th century slave who escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a box.

In previous centuries, sailing ships carried conquistadors, colonists, migrants and slaves around Europe and the Americas.

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.