Wanted: Re-Imagining the Enslaved: Eighteenth-Century Freedom Seekers as Twenty-First Century Sitters

By Camille Turner and Camal Pirbhai

In this captivating collection of photographs, Camille Turner and Camal Pirbhai draw attention to 18th-century fugitive slave ads from Canada's colonial archives. Juxtaposing reproductions of actual advertisements with contemporary photographs that reinterpret the details of the clothing worn by the freedom seekers as high-fashion, Turner and Pirbhai provoke a conversation about Canada's often unacknowledged role in the transatlantic slave trade.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894243994
• ISBN13: 9781894243995
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario
• Length: 32 Pages