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Am I Still Not a Man and a Brother? Protest Memory in Contemporary Antislavery Visual Culture
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This article examines the visual culture of the twenty-first century antislavery movement, arguing that it adapts four main icons of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionism for its contemporary campaigns against global slavery and human trafficking: the ‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother’ icon, the diagram of the ‘Brookes’ slave ship, the ‘Scourged Back’ photograph and the auction-block detail from the Liberator masthead. Finding some of the same limitations of paternalism, dehumanisation and sensationalism as dominated much of the first antislavery movement's visual culture, the article nonetheless identifies a liberatory aesthetic and a protest memory in the antislavery imagery of several contemporary artists, including Charles Campbell and Romuald Hazoumè.
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“The memory of transatlantic enslavement is evoked both to explain the experience of ' modern slavery ' and to agitate for antislavery action (Quirk 2008; Trodd 2013).”
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- For more on contemporary slavery, see Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, and Alex Kent Williamson, Modern Slavery (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009).
- Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (London: John W. Parker, 1839), 261. For more on the Wedgwood design, see Marcus Wood, The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010), chapter 2.
- Taylor & Francis, 2010), 14. For more on the 'Scourged Back' photograph, see Jackson, chapter 1, and Kathleen Collins, 'The Scourged Back' , History of Photography 9.1 (1985): 43 -5.
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- Authors
- Trodd, Z.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Trodd, Zoe
- Venue
- Slavery & Abolition
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 338-352
- ISSN
- 0144-039X (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9523
- OpenAlex
- W2019584242
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 6.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Slavery and Abolition (publishedVersion)
- Nottingham ePrints (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Keywords
- abolitionism, visual culture, human trafficking, global slavery, paternalism, dehumanization, sensationalism, contemporary art
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