June 23, 2012 - August 2, 2012
101 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor African American Collection
San Francisco, CA
Hours: Open during library hours.
Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world
of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and
America (USA). These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes incorporate
recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.
This series bridges a historical gap by connecting the major Colonial
slave trade shareholders and their cultivation of tobacco products in the New World. The larger European Crowns (a constitution Monarchy) which expanded their empires were:
Portugal, Spain, France,
Britain/England, Dutch/Netherlands, and America. Theses countries established global trading
companies, built fortified harbors and trading settlements along the coastlines
of the African continent (Gore, St. Louise, Elmira,
and Cape Coast . . .). For example, the French East Indian Company
was one of the first such Gold Coast
corporations. All of these counties traded
in various commodities, and parceled out newly colonized territories throughout
the Triangular Trade system (West
Africa, Caribbean, Americas,
and Europe).
The Treasured Cigar Box series offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning of how their
exploitative practices in the brutal servitude of the African slaves reaped
fortunes for the Colonizers. Finally,
the planting and harvesting of tobacco by African Slaves fueled the beginnings of
the modern day global corporations.
http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sometimes-a-cigar-box-isnt-a-cigar-box/Content?oid=2186229
http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sometimes-a-cigar-box-isnt-a-cigar-box/Content?oid=2186229
