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Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment

Beholding the Gap in Commemorations of Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Sarah Juliet Lauro
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Abstract

Dread Scott’s two-day Slave Rebellion Reenactment, part recreation and part historical revision, dramatized the 1811 slave rebellion in a more fully developed manner than historical records authored by slaveholders, incorporating a range of strategies used in other artworks depicting slave resistance, including: elisions, caesura, lacuna, off-screen action, obfuscation, abstraction, redaction, and more. These devices safeguard history from appropriation or commodification on the one hand; and on the other, highlight the way slave resistance is neglected in the historical record and commemorative landscape.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 24 - 41
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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