The Problem with Archives: The Runaways
The Freedom on the Move database houses over 30,000 runaway slave newspaper notices from various Universities in the South. These portraits are created using the limited descriptions listed in selected newspaper notices. Specific features, like scaring or physical descriptors, are painted as realistically as possible while the rest of the face is designed using the word provided by enslavers in the newspaper ads.
If you are interested in emancipating one of The Runaways please email the artist.
To learn more about the Wanted: Runaways please visit problemwitharchives.art
Install April 2021 (Kresge)
Install April 2021 (Kresge)
Install April 2021 (Kresge)
Install April 2021 (Kresge)
Studio Install Fall 2021
MSU Library
MSU African Studies Center
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MSU Broad Art Museum
Ben
Charles (Stellenbosch)
Daniel (Stellenbosch)
Delia
Edmund
Eliza
Emsly
Fanny (Stellenbosch)
Henry
Henry
Jack
John Bull (Stellenbosch)
Leroy (Stellenbosh)
Oliver
Merriman
Mingo
Nancy
Ned
Patrick
Pricilla
Richard
Sam
Sammy (Stellenbosch)
Sim
Tenah
Thomas
Willis
Hannah
Moses - Emancipated
Mary
Daniel
Rosanna
Francis A. Justice
Mary
Tarleton
Willam
Daniel Graham
Macy
Burl
Betty (Bet) "Negro Woman" (Stellenbosch)
Linda
Jerry
David
Ferely
"Katy"
Sarah (Sally) - Emancipated
Virgil
Ann
Gary (Stellenbosch)
Lazarus
Nance
Chaney
Ben
Jerry
Ester
Solomon
"9 Year Old Girl"
Israel
Sarah
Edmund
Charles
Jeff
Sam
Alice
Marriman
Tom
"A Boy Child About 12 Months Old"
Holland (Stellenbosch)
Ester (Stellenbosch)
Buck
Mills
"A Boy About 5 Years Old"
Jack
Andrew Saxon
Jean
Ann Summers
Fanny
Francios - Emancipated
Frank
Rebecca "Victoria"
John Harrison
Mary
Abraham
Alfred
Bristo
Sam
CONTACT
Each portrait is priced based on the original price, taking into account the inflation from the original year to now to calculate the emancipation price.
If you are interested in emancipating one of the Runaways, please use the contact sheet below.