I agree. The Turner Contemporary in Margate has an excellent exhibition We will Walk about Art and Resistance in the American South. People used a variety of ways to protest including the most famous, the walks, but also things like yard art and quilt making. The exhibition has a time line which sets out the laws that were passed to uphold slavery including that slaves were forbidden to learn to read, and acts of resistance from the first uprising in Haiti in the 1500s and Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley published in 1773, the first book by an African American to be published and only the second by a woman.
Thanks for sharing that link, I've just been taking a look and I'd love to visit that exhibition but being an impoverished writer from up north I'm not able to get down south at the moment.
But even just reading their website gives me an impression of the amazing exhibits.
That opening image
Is so striking. Thanks again for sharing that, and for checking out my poem shani :)