Revisioning our creative practice


Asian people in British north America

South Asians were brought as indentured slaves by the East India Company to the American colonies; records from the Maryland State Archives reveal that a daughter born in 1680 to an East Indian man and his Irish wife, was branded a mullato and sold as a slave in Maryland.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090130022356/http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=111605054006


T. Odumosu (2021). “This is how you see her? Rachael Pringle Polgreen of Barbados by Thomas Rowlandson’s satirical hand” 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14788810.2021.1920790


“Mulatto Archives: A Parcel of Ribbons – eighteenth century Jamaica viewed through family stories and documents”

https://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/tag/mulatto/


The Race to White in the 18th-Century West Indies

https://www.lindaleegraham.com/race-to-white/


Intriguing posts. Eg DNA?

Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean in forum Egyptology at EgyptSearch Forums.

https://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=8;t=009722


“An incomplete but very long White Art History of Slavery” (2021)

https://www.seattleartistleague.com/2021/02/20/an-incomplete-but-very-long-white-art-history-of-slavery/


Niger Delta: “The Portuguese arrived at the Niger delta in 1492 but the French claim that the Normand started trade on west coast of Africa in 1364. There is a Deed of Association between the merchants of Dieppe and Rouen to carry on this trade in 1365.”

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Niger_River


How Saida Hartman Retells the History of Black Life

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/how-saidiya-hartman-retells-the-history-of-black-life


Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469658797/jamaica-ladies/


“The King v. Robert James, a Slave, for Rape: Inequality, Gender, and British Slave Amelioration, 1823-1834”

https://www.academia.edu/60588291/The_King_v_Robert_James_a_Slave_for_Rape_Inequality_Ge nder_and_British_Slave_Amelioration_1823_1834


Mixed Race Studies Article about Daniel Livesay

https://mixedracestudies.org/?tag=daniel-livesay


PBS: “Africans in America”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html


Code Switch Podcast

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch


National Museum of African American Music

https://www.nmaam.org/galleries


Empire Lines – flows of empires through Art

https://jelsofron.com/empire-lines/


"Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today" with Denise Murrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SewdyvAFmbI


“Six Triple Eight: the battalion of black women erased from history”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635


Manuel Vidau bought his freedom in Cuba with a lottery ticket win and took a passage to England with his wife, Maria Picard and adopted son, with hopes of them all making it back to Lagos from which the adults had been trafficked decades before.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/massive-new-database-connect-billions-historic-records-tell-full-story-american-slavery-180973721/ 


Slave societies digital archives

https://slavesocieties.org/


Doctresses/ Indigenous healers

Bruchac, M. (1998). “In search of the Indian Doctress - Rhoda Rhoades”, Pioneer Valley History Network

https://pvhn2.wordpress.com/1800-2/rhoda-rhoades/


Walk With the Indian Doctress: Restorative Approaches to Interpreting Native American Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOu86ILLYw


Rusert, B. (2020). “Archives of Freedom: Fugitive Science in Antebellum Black Newspapers”, Readex Report, Vol. 15, Issue1.

https://www.readex.com/readex-report/issues/volume-15-issue-1/archives-freedom-fugitive-science-antebellum-black 


Senior, C & Manley, D. (1955). “A Report on Jamaican Migration to Great Britain” (Jamaica Government)


Senior, C & Manley, D. (1956). “The West Indian in Britain”, Fabian Colonial Bureau Watson, R. (1942). West Indian Workers in Great Britain (Hodder & Stoughton)


“Speech Delivered by Marcus Garvey at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England”, June 6th 1928


The University of Liverpool (1940). The Economic Status of Coloured Families in the Port of Liverpool


Moody H. (19440 The Colour Bar Report from the Committee on the Petition of the Court of Directors of the SIERRA LEONE Company (1802)


Pryce, K & Rambachan, S. (1977). The Black Experience in Britain: a study of the life-styles of West Indians in Bristol. (UWI)


Yaba Blay, ONE DROP: Shifting the Lens on Race

https://www.beacon.org/One-Drop-P1687.aspx


“This is Not America: why black lives in Britain matter”, LSE Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0-Fj8XCEEY&list=PLK4elntcUEy3YfUoDxqS4_sE_00WTTvWZ&index=13 


BBC R3 “A Charlestonian Rhapsody: The Story of Edmund T Jenkins”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fgnvxt


Stamped from the Beginning review – tracing racism throughout American history

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/09/stamped-from-the-beginning-review-tracing-racism-throughout-american-history 


Harry Belafonte - Sing Your Song (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraBOpz_mTg