Slave-Revolt dot com

[irisblue]

:::THIS IS THE AFRICAN AMERICIAN GROUP.
::: PLEASE RESPECT THIS


I saw this tweet this afternoonMolly Crabapple🇵🇷 (@mollycrabapple) Tweeted:
My friend @DreadScottArt got sick of civil war reenactments, and decided to stage a slave rebellion reenactment.

On 11/8-9, hundreds of reenactors will march on New Orleans and recreate the the largest slave rebellion in US history. https://t.co/VsNEiNMDJ1

Link to tweet

Went to the website and looked around.

This is going to turn into good things, also freak out a whole bunch of W.S.


Snip-Slave Rebellion Reenactment is a community-engaged artist performance and film production that, on November 8-9, 2019, will reimagine the German Coast Uprising of 1811, which took place in the river parishes just outside of New Orleans. Envisioned and organized by artist Dread Scott and documented by filmmaker John Akomfrah, Slave Rebellion Reenactment (SRR) will animate a suppressed history of people with an audacious plan to organize and seize Orleans Territory, to fight not just for their own emancipation, but to end slavery. It is a project about freedom.

The artwork will involve hundreds of reenactors in period specific clothing marching for two days covering 26 miles. The reenactment, the culmination of a period of organizing and preparation, will take place upriver from New Orleans in the locations where the 1811 revolt occurred—the exurban communities and industry that have replaced the sugar plantations will be its backdrop. The reenactment will be an impressive and startling sight—hundreads of Black re-enactors, many on horses, flags flying, in 19th-century French colonial garments, singing in Creole and English to African drumming.



Snip-"A key element of slave revolts was the organizing of the uprising by small groups of trusted individuals, clandestinely plotting with others in small cells. Mirroring this structure, SRR will initiate several recruitment and organizing meetings of multiple small groupings of people to prepare the reenacted uprising. Extending the artwork’s performative reenactment of history, the meetings will take the form of conversations about why people choose to participate, about others they might involve, and why this history is important in contemporary society. The self-organization of the slave rebel reenactors is an essential part of the artwork.

There was limited fighting during the 1811 rebellion, so, in contrast to many war reenactments, much of SRR will be a procession, with only occasional skirmishes. The procession will be jarringly out of place as they advance past neighborhoods, strip malls, and oil refineries. This historic anomaly will form a cognitive dissonance for viewers, opening space for people to rethink long held assumptions. "


Lots more at website.

(And as always, I receive no benefits from this)

[abqtommy]

1. Excellent op, but it's a sad commentary on the status of ethnic prejudice here in the

USA in the 21st century when anybody feels that they have to state that respect is appreciated.
You've got it from me!

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2. American Uprising

by Daniel Rasmussen written in 2012 is an excellent book on the German Coast Louisiana slave rebellion. It's in paperback and in many libraries.

[irisblue]

3. The Resources Section from the web site is extensive

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS9IlSiHXPfThlG9TNCLc85hE4v96DesG3_YZ1g1Yelo_3RkbX47LpKn8NqMPGN4YEqx65OcO35kFjR/pub


Thanks for the Rasmussen book info