By Iron Possessed: Fabrice Monteiro's Maroons: The Fugitive Slaves

Authors

Mark Auslander, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Anthropology and Museum Studies

Publication Date

9-1-2016

Abstract

At first glance, the still photographs by Fabrice Monteiro in his series Marrons, Les esclaves fugitifs (Maroons: The Fugitive Slaves) are the stuff of nightmare. They are hard to look at, and even harder to turn away from. These startling black-and-white photographs depict West African men wearing the kinds of metal devices used to inflict punishment under slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Comments

This article was originally published in African Arts. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Recommended Citation

Auslander, Mark. “By Iron Possessed: Fabrice Monteiro’s Maroons: The Fugitive Slaves.” African Arts, vol. 49, no. 3, 2016, pp. 62–67, doi:10.1162/afar_a_00300.

Journal

African Arts

Rights

© 2016 by the Regents of the University of California.