Linda Bolton - Art Collaborations
"'Memory and Oblivion:' Legacies of Enslavement in the Americas"
A Collaborative Exhibition between
Painter Chandra Cox, Sculptor Marianetta Porter and Writer Linda Bolton
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Acts of Memory
are acts of choice.
Do you remember?
Black Kettle, and the 1864 slaughter at Sand Creek?
John Brown, and the 1859 insurrection at Harpers Ferry?
Or, November 1841, when Madison Washington
Led the revolt aboard the slave-ship, Creole
and 135 Africans sailed from captivity
towards the possibility of freedom?
We remember, only if we choose.
Acts of remembrance
are acts of choice,
acts of conscience,
acts of courage.
These are moments
we cannot afford to forget.