This section of our digital exhibition features a newspaper clipping, a portrait, and a letter. While these items span one hundred years and were created across North America and the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions and the American Civil War, they all advocate for an upheaval of existing power dynamics built on the legacies of colonization and race-making. The writers and printers of a Stamp Act Newspaper clipping, a portrait of Toussaint L’Ouverture, and a letter about African American soldiers in the Civil War engage with the concepts of fundamental rights as they comment on taxes, identity, freedom, equitable medical treatment, and citizenship.
