BS: The Benefits of Slavery: Kickstarter campaign to complete artists book

Only 9 more days to reach 100%. Yikes! Help us complete this limited edition artists’ book on Rhode Island’s role in Atlantic slave trade including letterpress, engravings and photogravures.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primrosepress/bs-the-benefits-of-sl...

This book is the culmination of a year of research, writing, and image making. Initially conceived of as away to learn engraving, this project sought to tie the steep learning curve of engraving to that of learning Providence, Rhode Island and its place in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. Almost immediately patterns and connections merged. Through this lens, a different picture of eighteenth and early nineteenth century New England emerges.

This Kickstarter campaign will fund the purchase materials like copper and photopolymer plates, paper, and ink to edition this artists’ book project.

We are currently over 60% funded with 12 days to go. Help us get to 100% by funding, sharing, and forwarding. Sharing really is caring. We have lot of letterpress and print rewards for funders.

Happy Printing,

Tia Blassingame/ Primrose Press

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