While the U.S. celebrates the end of slavery on Juneteenth, incarcerated artists depict the harsh reality that forced labor persists in prison:
In his triptych,, Jared Owens, a formerly incarcerated artist based in New York, superimposes the 1788 diagram of the Brookes slave ship — what art historian Cheryl Finley calls “the slave ship icon” — over the blueprint of Fairton Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey, where he served time. In this blended image, the slave ship’s hold merges with prison cells, juxtaposing and visually linking the blueprints of the transatlantic slave trade with the architecture of contemporary prisons.
On Juneteenth, we commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. Not the actual date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, on January 1, 1863, but two and a half years later, when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce it on June 19, 1865. That’s the political backdrop for the role that slavery plays today in prison art — it’s the reality of the incarcerated artist. The forced labor extracted from incarcerated bodies should cause alarm, but instead most of American society seems not to care that slavery is embedded into the criminal legal system.
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