Uprising & Resistance
Responding to archival silences surrounding slavery in Early Modern London
“As much as violence, brutality and dehumanizing conditions were ever-present aboard slave ships, so was resistance to that inhumanity.”
Uprising & Resistance is a series of commissioned poetry and visual art works responding to academic research from John Hopkins University and Black Beyond Data into the archives of Lloyd’s insurance market. Their investigative work sheds light on the critical roles that City of London merchants, financiers and underwriters played in the British trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Taking this historical research as a starting point, poets and visual artists were commissioned to respond to these challenging, traumatic and problematic archives, as well as the surrounding silences that they don’t record.
Published by Ink Sweat & Tears Press, Uprising and Resistance features creative work by poets Remi Graves, Keith Jarrett, Courtney Conrad and malakaï sergeant, and artists Jess Nash and Levi Naidu-Mitchell; edited by Gboyega Odubanjo.
