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Slavery Trails: Marcus Brown slave artist 2022
Slavery Trails: Marcus Brown slave artist
Marcus Brown, 2022
Slavery Trails is a musically interactive augmented reality (AR) installation series based on slave ships and enslaved people, placed on historical sites throughout the United States. Artist Marcus Brown created this series to virtually mark areas where enslaved people were held, sold, and worked in the United States. The interactive Augmented Reality (AR) sculpture series presents multiple exhibits that represent enslaved peoples using present day Black Americans. Brown's project begins with the placement of virtual sculptures in the exhibit Marcus Brown Slave Artist No. Series. The exhibit is only visible by smartphone or smart devices. The exhibit depicts the artist Marcus Brown as an enslaved person standing on the neutral ground or street median located on the corner of Chartres Street and Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans. This is the same median where Solomon Northup was sold as a slave over 180 years ago. Each of Brown’s self-portrait sculptures will be presented and digitally sold from his website for the modern-day price of a domestic slave from the 1840s. Brown’s goal is to use the proceeds from each sculpture sold to fund a national project that creates more markers around the country. - https://arslaverytrails.com/ Slaverytrails.com Marcus Brown 2022
Location for artwork and Marker:
29° 57.771′ N, 90° 3.547′ W. Marker is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish. It is in Marigny. Marker is at the intersection of Esplanade Avenue and Chartres Street, in the median on Esplanade Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: New Orleans LA 70116.
New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade Historical Marker
Erected 2018 by New Orleans Committee to Erect Markers on the Slave Trade.
front side)
In 1808, the US Congress abolished the international slave trade, contributing to a significant increase in the domestic slave trade, or the trafficking of human beings within the boundaries of the United States. During the fifty-seven years that followed, an estimated 2 million men, women, and children were separated from families and forcibly moved by slave traders and owners. The largest numbers were brought from the Upper South to the Lower South via overland and water routes.
New Orleans was the center of this trade, resulting in more than fifty documented sites. More enslaved people were sold here from slave pens, public squares, government buildings, church properties, city taverns, private residences, auction houses, and even ballrooms of luxury hotels than anywhere else in the US.
2. New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade Marker (back side)
Within a one-block radius of this marker were the New Orleans offices, showrooms, and slave pens of over a dozen slave trading firms, including Franklin, Armfield, and Ballard,
Hope Hull Slatter, John Hagan, Joseph Bruin, and others. Their networks, which undergirded the antebellum economy, stretched from Norfolk, Baltimore, Louisville, and Memphis to New Orleans, Natchez, Galveston, Pensacola, and beyond. 1
New Orleans and the domestic slave trade historical marker. (2023, February 12). https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=117438
New Orleans and the domestic slave trade historical marker. (2023, February 12). https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=117438
Thank you to all the historians and Community members that made this marker happen.
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_405e6f96-f17b-11ec-8b27-1745065b57b2.html https://www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-slavery-trail-art-exhibit/40360164