SLAVERY™ - the International Cotton Artist & Farmer -

name meaning: 'Know Your History/Herstory' & "Never Forget It'.

-born and raised in Fort Lauderdale Florida with Gullah Geechee ancestry in Kingstree South Carolina and Savannah Georgia. He has traveled to 11 countries including: Pompidou Market in Paris, Old Spitalfields Market in London, Casablanca in Morocco, the Vatican Museum (Vatican City) in Rome selling cotton jewelry, returning all the way back to Front Street debuting 'Harriet Tubman Underground in Georgetown' & 'It.Is.Finished' (A Multicoloured Cotton Jesus Christ) cotton fiber art at the historic Rice Museum and Gullah Museum in (Georgetown, SC).

Prior to the cotton reclamation he has done performing arts such as acting & playwrighting winning 'Best Drama' for his original one-man show Satan Vs God at the International Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland UK among many others thespian awards in the states as well as Off Broadway in New York City. 

He began planting multicolored cotton in South Florida just before the pandemic on a half an acre in Fort Lauderdale Florida at his grandmother's family home where he did pop-ups selling multicolored cotton plants, cotton seeds, cotton spun jewelry as well as cotton candles at the African-American Research Library and Lauderdale by the Sea to name a few.  

He continues to travel nationally vending cotton pickin' jewelry right outside the Apollo Theater in (Harlem) NYC, the prestigious Schomburg Center, BAM in (Brooklyn), The international African Street Festival (Brooklyn) the Essence Festival in (New Orleans), Eastern Market (Washington DC) and the Sweetgrass Festival in (Mount Pleasant) near Charleston SC. 

He continues to travel internationally to teach and do pop-up shops and most recently featured at the (Brookgreen Gardens 'Junkanoo' Festival) near Pawleys Island as well as the 90th Anniversary of Atlantic Beach, SC.

His ancestral mission is to reintroduce multicolored cotton to "black" & "white" Americans, to bring raw cotton back for future new generations without enslavement in hopes to heal the psychological trauma done through the exploitation of cotton in the USA and abroad by using cotton spun jewelry, cotton educational performing arts, cotton spinning, weaving, and all other creative endeavors that showcases raw cotton in a healing, spiritual, powerfully and poetic way. 

Photo Credit: @luuiiza