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Revisiting New York City’s Role in the Slave Trade

Nona Faustine connects the present with the past with powerful self-portraits that resist erasure of the city’s brutal history.

"Dorothy Angola, Stay Free, In Land Of The Blacks", Minetta Lane, Village, NYC, 2021, from White Shoes (MACK, 2021) © Nona Faustine, courtesy of the artist and MACK.

For centuries, New York City dominated the transatlantic slave trade, acting as ...

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