Artist, researcher displays Newfoundland's connections to slave trade

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An art installation at this year's Bonavista Biennale is shining a light on a dark corner of Newfoundland's history -- slave ships that were built on the island during the 1700s.

Camille Turner, a Toronto-based artist and academic, was intrigued when she heard the largely untold story of Newfoundland-built slave ships, and she was surprised to find so many ships documented in a database of expeditions.

Turner's travelling Afronautic Research Lab, on display until Sept. 15., functions as a reading room on Canada's links to slavery, displaying records such as newspaper clippings from Canadian slave owners who were hunting down runaway people. Information on the expeditions varies, but crucially missing are identifying details about the trafficked people and their lives.

"I keep it deliberately dark because that's what it's like trying to do this work, trying to do this research, and trying to shine light on something that's being silenced," Turner said of her exhibit's aesthetic. Turner's aim is to bring these hidden stories to the forefront and map the global connections of the inhumane practice.

And elsewhere in Atlantic Canada, research is also pointing to the slave economy's powerful role in the region's history and development.

 

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Nobody Cares !!! WE recommend a Job.

Imagine coming to a country that never had anything to do with slavery and running the white guilt racket 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Were slaves captured in Africa by colonials or were they sold by their African counterparts to the colonials?

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Won’t be able to find her come winter

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