Imagining and Imagined Sites, Sights, and Sounds of Slavery

Drawing from Simon P. Newman’s essay attempting to visualize the way white people viewed Jamiaican society and enhance historical artwork with this lens, Professor Naylor examines the problematic layers of representation and interpretation this presents. “Just as it is crucial to point out the deliberate erasure (and racialist characterizations) of enslaved and free people of color in the work of Hakewill and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century white artists, we must also interrogate twenty-first-century decisions made in reimagining these digitally enhanced scenes.”