Forgotten Black Artists of the Black Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This panel explores the poet Isaac Louverture and the painter Scipio Moorhead, whose artistic careers were connected to more famous personalities during the Age of Revolution.

Sub Unit

• 109th ASALH Annual Conference

Chair

• Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Individual Presentations

• Isaac Louverture: Poet - Andrew Maginn, University of the South: Sewanee

• Portrait for Portrait: Phillis Wheatley, Scipio Moorhead, and Early African Atlantic Acknowledgment Practices - Karla Zelaya, Smith College