Mikael Levin Critical Places

CRITICAL PLACES

CRITICAL PLACES / SITES OF AMERICAN SLAVE REBELLION

2019-Ongoing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Truth Church. Louisville, Mississippi. 2021. The Winston County Conspiracy of 1859.

CRITICAL PLACES; SITES OF AMERICAN SLAVE REBELLION

(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.

Sample site presentations:

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

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

Louisville, Mississippi. 2021 / The Winston County Conspircay of 1860

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

Rebellion sites photographed to date:

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

Stono, 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