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Slavery Trails: Marcus Brown slave artist
Marcus Brown, 2022
Artist Marcus Brown presents himself as an enslaved figure in augmented reality, standing on the neutral ground where Solomon Northup was sold into slavery over 180 years ago. Each digital self-portrait is sold for the modern-day value of a slave from the 1840s, with proceeds funding a national project to mark sites of enslavement across the U.S. Through Slavery Trails, Brown transforms public space into a living memorial.
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 Slavery Trails series is an attempt to create an interactive decentralized memorial to slavery in the United States.
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