(2019-Ongoing)

Many of the specific sites where slave rebellions took place are unknown, having been forgotten, or the landscape altered beyond recognition. These sites of rebellion are, by and large, just everyday places.

This project is about how rebellions are remembered (or not remembered) in the landscape. Through my experience of these places, as witnessed in my photographs, I am marking them as critical places in a topography of historical consciousness, bringing forward how I see these rebellions still echoing in social patterns and economic structures.

These photographs appear as ordinary pictures of ordinary places until we understand that the sites are specific, and each has an essential story to tell.

While continuing to photograph, I have now started on a second stage of the project presenting the work in venues proximate to the rebellion sites. Putting forward my personal perspective on these places and stories, I question modes of remembrance, raising historical awareness. The first such exhibition opened at Saint Mary's College of Maryland in September 2023. Four more are scheduled for 2024: at the Melrose, Natchez, and at Alcorn State University, both in Mississippi, at the restored Lincoln Schoolhouse of Canton, Missouri, and at Suffolk County Community College in New York.

Saint Simon's Island, Georgia. 2021. The Igbo Landing Mass Suicide of 1803.

U.S.Highway 17 at Wallace River, South Carolina. 2020. The Stono Rebellion of 1739.

Astoria, Queens, New York. 2020. The Newtown Revolt of 1708.

Colorado County, Texas. 2022. The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1856.

La Grange, Missouri. 2022. The Lin Uprising of 1849.

York, Pennsilvania. 2019. The Margaret Bradley Conspiracy of 1803

Barn. Cherry Grove Plantation. Adams County, Mississippi. 2021. The Second Creek Conspiracy of 1861

Mike's Ice House. Eagle Lake, Texas. 2022. The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1856.

The Hanging Tree. Cherry Grove Plantation. Adams County, Mississippi. 2024. The Second Creek Conspiracy of 1861

Suffolk Iron Works. Suffolk, Virginia. 2023. The Maroon Raiders of the Great Dismal Swamp of 1823.

Rebellion sites photographed to date:

York, Pennsylvania. 2019. The Margaret Bradley Conspiracy of 1803

Ravenel and Hollywood, South Carolina. 2020. The Stono Rebellion of 1739

Saint Inigoes, Maryland.2020. The Easter Rebellion of 1817

Astoria, Queens, New York. 2020-2021. The Newtown Revolt of 1708

Saint Simons Island, Georgia. 2021. The Igbo Landing Mass Suicide of 1803

Adams County, Mississippi. 2021. The Second Creek Conspiracy of 1861

Cheneyville, Louisiana. 2021. The Cheneyville Conspiracy of 1837

Louisville, Mississippi. 2021. The Winston County Conspiracy of 1860

Madison County, Mississippi. 2021. The Madison County Rebellion of 1835

Colorado County, Texas. 2022. The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1856

Northern Kentucky. 2022. The Doyle Stampede of 1848

Lewis County, Missouri. 2022. The Lin Uprising of 1849

Suffolk, Virginia and Camden County, North Carolina 2023. The Maroon Raiders of the Great Dismal Swamp. 1823

Southampton County, Virginia. 2023. The Nat Turner Insurrection of 1831