​"Through Revolutionary Lenses: The African Hero in the Atlantic World of Enlightenment"

​Lafont will take the opportunity of this talk to explore the ways in which fine arts and print culture dealt with the Revolutionary and Atlantic Black Subject of 1800. Questions will include: Did the African Hero of the American, French and Haitian Revolutions get images and portraits illustrating their contributions to those political emancipations? How specific were their iconographies regarding race, national context and medium? Is there any material and visual testimony of the Black empowerment in the late eighteenth-century and what does it mean?