Repatriation, Arlene Kweli Jones

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Arlene Kweli Jones, artist
Repatriation, 2012
Where object was made: Bayswater, New York, United States
Material/technique: digitally printed cotton fabric; machine quilting by Sylvia Hernandez; hand sewing; machine piecing; commercial cotton fabric; machine sewing; synthetic yarn; paper piecing
Accession number: EL2017.041
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And Still We Rise

1816: The American Colonization Society is founded by Presbyterian minister Robert Finley and others who contend that emigration of African American persons to Africa is an answer to the problem of slavery and to the “incompatibility of the races” in America. The society will establish the colony of Liberia in western Africa. Over the next 40 years, nearly 12,000 emancipated slaves will voluntarily relocate to Africa as part of the colonization movement. The colony will eventually become the Republic of Liberia. This quilt represents the Liberian flag, which is very similar to the flag of the United States.

Exhibitions

And Still We Rise
2017