Slavery ads help put historical art in context, professor says
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 8:10 PM AT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 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...
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