Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books – and the first in Art History – to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value.
Charmaine Nelson is a Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement and Professor of History at NSCAD University.
Other publications from this author include:
- Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance (2018)
- Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery (2013)
- Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (2010)
- Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art (2010)
- The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007)
- Racism Eh? : A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context (2004)