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Joseph s painting of the ice cream parlour on Fleetwood prom
- Credit: Joseph Travis
Fleetwood artist Joseph Travis is creating unique illustrations of seaside architecture in watercolour and ink to raise money for Trinity Hospice.
In memory of his grandmother, Marjorie Gill, he has created 100 customised prints to raise money for the Blackpool-based hospice. The prints are A3 and created to be affordable; each is priced at £20, with half the money going straight to Trinity Hospice. The rest covers the costs of production and shipping within the UK.
Joseph drawing on the Flag Market in Preston
- Credit: Joseph Travis
The Confessions of Nat Turner. According to
The Confessions, Turner was born into slavery on a Southampton plantation on October 2, 1800. He could read and write, which was unusual for an enslaved person of that time and place, and he owned a Bible. He had a family, including a grandmother to whom he was “much attached”; a father who escaped slavery; and a wife and son, who lived on a neighboring farm. He was deeply religious, “devoting [his] time to fasting and prayer,” and experienced private revelations in which “the Spirit that spoke to the prophets in former days” spoke to him. When he was in his twenties, Turner ran away from his overseer. He was gone for a month, returning only, he said, at the spirit’s urging.