In this talk, Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray reveals how Black abolitionists relied on a close relationship between visual arts and print as part of their lecturing tours in Britain and Ireland during the c19th. Relying on contemporary technologies, Black abolitionists sold their narratives at the end of antislavery lectures to raise money for their own survival or for the purchase of family members; printed illustrations from their literary work on handbills; exhibited weapons of torture; performed lectures, songs and poetry alongside their own paintings and panoramas, and starred in plays based on their own lives on the Victorian stage. Murray will discuss revolutionary and neglected figures including Moses Roper and James Watkins, as well as activists who have never been discussed before in contemporary literature including James C. Thompson, John Williams and Washington Duff.
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