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This block depicts the transformation of the cotton and slave industries after the invention of the cotton gin. It aims to capture small sober reminders that enslaved peoples were commodities in the eyes of the United States, their only intended purpose to advance capital and power within the nation. When considering how to visualize freedom we must also consider how to re-imagine profit. Representing the intersection between bodies and profit, this block asks observers a simple question: Is the slave nothing more than an outdated cotton gin?
Title The Man, The Machine
creator Simonne Carlton (Grinnell College Class of 2018)
Advisor Edouard Duval-Carrié
Faculty Advisor Fredo Rivera (Grinnell College Class of 2006)
Supporting Host Department of Art and Art History
Index Date 2017
Date (Other) Fall 2017
Publisher Grinnell College
Keyword Cotton Gin
Keyword Slavery
Keyword Haiti
Keyword America
Keyword Plantation
Geographic Haiti
Temporal 1793-1804
Type of Resource Still Image
Genre Visual Art
Medium Resin block with mixed media
Extent 13 x 15 x 1.75 inches
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) 007-010
Physical Location Grinnell College, 1226 Park Street, Grinnell IA 50112
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/25491
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