50 x 53.5cms (image size) 56 x 59.5cms (paper size) Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 10 £450 (unframed) £575 (framed) Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862. After gaining her freedom, she campaigned in the US against lynching, bravely arguing that it was a ‘sentence’ often passed on black men falsely accused of non-consensual sex with white women. A controversial article she published in the African American newspaper Free Speech resulted in an angry mob destroying the newspaper’s offices and equipment. In the 1890s she campaigned in Britain raising awareness of the mistreatment of African Americans.
