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Last year, summertime didn’t look the same on Prince Edward Island.
The province’s patios weren’t packed with visitors enjoying lobster and drinking craft beer; the historic streets of downtown Charlottetown weren’t adorned with as many traditional horse-and-wagon rides; and museums and gift shops in Cavendish were quiet despite their picturesque location.
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Charmaine Nelson displayed one of the slavery ads during her lecture in Charlottetown last month.(Youtube)
An art historian says her research into slavery has given her a better understanding of historical Canadian art as it pertains to Black people.
Charmaine Nelson, a professor of art history at NSCAD University in Halifax and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, gave a lecture last month at the Confederation Centre of the Arts entitled
Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late-18th- and early 19th-century Canada.
I said to myself, if you don t understand slavery, you don t understand how these images are working.