Overview
In this miniature documentary, members of an international team of scholars and visual artists describe to videographer Steve Bransford the process of creating a 3D model of the Marie-Séraphique, a Trans-Atlantic ship dynamic in the trade of enslaved persons from 1769 to 1774. Making operate of unique surviving illustrations and details from historical texts, 3D modelers at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship reconstructed the Marie-Séraphique. Any model will fail to convey the horror and violence endured by the captives onboard. This depiction offers insight into the making of such vessels, their design for conveyance, surveillance, and control.
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Recommended Resources
Text
Eltis, David and David Richardson. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
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Radburn, Nicholas and David Eltis. “Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49, no. 4 (2019): 533–565.
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Web
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. “Slave Ship, “L’Aurore”, a 3D Video.” February 4, 2019. Video, 4:46. https://vimeo.com/315299464.
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