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5 Agosto 2024

CHILLUNS’ CROON

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Chilluns’ Croon investigates themes such as absence, remembrance, spirituality, and mortality among formerly enslaved people in Wilson County, North Carolina. This work provides an intimate portrait of an African American community and expresses songs of hope, equality, and change for new generations.

I conducted extensive research on the Wilson County area and established a relationship with Lisa Y. Henderson, curator of the archive Black Wide-Awake, who provided access to documents of genealogical and historical interest related to Wilson County’s African American community. Then, as photographer and historian, me and Lisa Y. Henderson selected files to inspire the imagery essay.

The archive Black Wide-Awake, curated by Lisa Y. Henderson, includes a wide range of files: these include photographs, family diaries, and plantation records, as well as newspaper clippings of obituaries, town crimes, and social events. The archive spans from the mid-1700s through the era of slavery in the 1800s and the segregation era in the 1900s, to contemporary documents detailing new local activists who seek to restore and preserve their African American legacy.

Chilluns’ Croon also incorporates documents such as old transcripts from the Federal Writers Project (FWP) which feature interviews with formerly enslaved African Americans. Together, these documents reveal old spiritual beliefs and stories of love and loss from the periods of slavery and segregation in the United States.20_Ruiz Gonzalez

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