Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Boxer, David, 1946-2017

Title:

The black books.

Published / Created:

[Jamaica] : [ s.n.], [1992-2003]

Physical Description:

3 v. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.35.C27 B69 1992+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Limited edition of 3 copies.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 2 of a limited edition of 3 copies. Signed by the artist.

A three-volume series intended to memorialize the Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Each page represents a year between Christopher Columbus's arrival in Jamaica in 1494 and the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1838. Each page employs a monochromatic collage of digital images.

Contents:

v. 1. 1494-1611 -- v. 2. 1612-1733 -- v. 3. 1734-1838.

Subject Terms:

Artists' books -- Specimens. | Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- Pictorial works. | Slavery -- Jamaica -- Pictorial works.