'You can't understand America if you don't understand slavery,' said artist Dread Scott, who has organized the reenactment.
in a reenactment of the uprising to ensure that it is never forgotten, with participants expected to march 26 miles over the span of two days on November 8 and 9.
The reenactment is a community project organized by artist Dread Scott, who told one local outlet, the"It will be an impressive and startling sight," a description of the reenactment on Scott's personal website states."500+ Black people, many on horses, armed with cane knives and muskets, flags flying, some in militia uniforms, others in 19th century French colonial garments, singing in Creole to African drumming.
"We will animate a suppressed history of people with an audacious plan to organize and seize Orleans Territory, to fight not just for their own emancipation, but to end slavery," Scott told theThe 1811 revolt, which took place between January 8 and January 10,"is one of the most significant events in U.S. history," he said. Yet, it does not receive the same nationwide recognition that other monumental events that helped shaped American history do.
"You can't understand America if you don't understand slavery. And you can't understand slavery if you don't understand slave revolts," Scott said."This was the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. And it is a real, 'What if?' moment." "What if it succeeded in establishing an African republic on what was then Orleans Territory?" Scott added."And how people think of the past has everything to do with how they think of the present and what they can imagine for the future."Artist Dread Scott attends Kickstarter Dinner In Honor Of Art Basel And Artist Glenn Kaino & Olympian Tommie Smith At The Standard Spa, Miami at The Standard Spa on December 8, 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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