Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance.įinley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by Black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was-shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Finley’s current book project, Black Market: Inside the Art World, aims to diversify the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among artists, museums, biennials and migration.How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. On leave from Cornell University, where she is Associate Professor of Art History, Dr.
She is a curator, contemporary art critic and award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018), the first in-depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery–a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold–and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. in African American Studies and History of Art from Yale University. A visionary leader committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the art and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world’s largest HBCU consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College.
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