LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE (2021)
The long list of people who begged founding fathers like Washington and Jefferson to do something about slavery included the renowned Marquis de Lafayette.
“Lafayette had a powerful insight, detecting in slaveholders a combination of “prejudices, Habits, and Calculations.”* This combination acted as their engine, in place of a conscience. Racism ratified their power, as did the dispensations of Providence.
*Source: Henry Wiencek
LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE (2021) premiered in VESTED: INTEREST DUE at Davis Gallery at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva NY in Spring, 2022.
