Figure 9. This zine, entitled “The Silenced, was created at the workshop and is about enslaved Africans who were sent to East Florida. They wore a “yellow silk ferret” or ribbon tied around the wrist to recognize them as enslaved. The zine includes newspaper clippings that show these folks for sale. It inquires, “How do we retrieve lives archived as commodities?
A rectangular paper loosely collaged with ink print, newspaper clippings, hand-written words, photocopied script, and a yellow ribbon. The title reads “The Silenced.” A bit of photocopied script reads, “A Midell Aged Negros Man and Wife Named Robert and Nansey…Wich he left with me…” Below that, block-printed letters read “who are ROBERT & NANSEY.” “Enslaved Africans in British East-Florida 1763-1783” is hand-written at the bottom of the paper.