Reenactment of Slavery in Brooklyn (1895)
"See the Negro as he really is ... placed in the AMUSEMENT world as an EDUCATOR with natural surroundings."
“Black America, which took place between Brooklyn’s Third Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street (then Ambrose Park), was a combination slavery cosplay, ethnographic exhibition, Black performance review, and all-around spectacle. …
Over a hundred cabins were built to form the Renaissance Faire style village, which housed more than five hundred Black performers, who traveled north to playact slavery.”
“This was a plantation of five hundred workers, with no whips, no overseers, no selling of mother from child, husband from wife. They were all dressed in new, matching outfits, ‘white straw hats [for] the men and the red bandannas [for] the women’.”
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