I was invited by The Womxn Project to create a video for their Illuminating Slavery series. This iteration took place in Bristol, RI on July 28, 2022. Here’s a short interview with myself and Cristina DiChiera, Executive Director of The Womxn Project Education Fund.
From The Womxn Project
Linden Place was built in 1810 by George DeWolf, a prominent figure in Rhode Island's trade of enslaved people. New England is often thought of as far less complicit in the economy of slavery than southern states, though the truth is that the region benefited greatly. Rhode Island was an epicenter of the transatlantic slave trade, not only through its massive ship building industry, but also through textile mills that turned imported cotton into slave cloth used throughout the South. The DeWolf family also profited from sugar and coffee plantations in Cuba that were worked by enslaved peoples. In This Place uses imagery of cotton, sugarcane, and coffee to reflect upon the birth of Linden Place from the DeWolf's benefit and enablement of the Triangle Trade.