Treasured Cigar Box Assemblage Explorations of the African designed by April Martin Chartrand

June 30, 2012 - PRLog -- June 23, 2012 - August 2, 2012
101 Larkin Street @ Grove Street.  3rd Floor African American Collection
San Francisco, CA
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Free

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series  bridges a historical gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders and their cultivation of tobacco products in the New World.  The larger European Crowns (a constitution Monarchy) which expanded their empires were: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain/England, Dutch/Netherlands, and America.  Theses countries established global trading companies, built fortified harbors and trading settlements along the coastlines of the African continent (Gore, St. Louise, Elmira, and Cape Coast . . .).  For example, the French East Indian Company was one of the first such Gold Coast corporations.  All of these counties traded in various commodities, and parceled out newly colonized territories throughout the Triangular Trade system (West Africa, Caribbean, Americas, and Europe).

The Treasured Cigar Box series offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning of how their exploitative practices in the brutal servitude of the African slaves reaped fortunes for the Colonizers.  Finally, the planting and harvesting of tobacco by African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day global corporations.


BIO:
Chartrand is a national award-winning fiberalchemist (She placed 1st place in Textile Division at the Atlanta Life Insurance Company’s Annual Art Competition.): Her winning work ‘Sailing on Motion’ is housed in the Atlanta Life Insurance Companies’ private collection in Atlanta, GA. To continue, she is a published author of ‘Angel’s Destiny: A Novel Story of Poems & Illustrations’ (2009 - ISBN 978-061-530-2515) which is currently available on Amazon.com,  CreateSpace.com.