From the archives of a Belgian photographer hired to make portraits of indentured laborers to the digital restoration of pictures from an architect who has seen the very last houses of slaves and labor camps, we help digitize and analyze, we move modern equipment to the very same places and document in high resolution the remains of this era.

Since photography were at very early stages of development by then, most of the relevant documents are handwritten, hand drawn and painted assets. This allows a large space for interpretation, artists choices and bias, but also a very romantic exploration of this heritage. The main thing is which part is truly accurate and which emanes from artist mood, inspiration or scholarship influence.

Since it was mandatory for employers to provide some clothes or at least some raw fabric to laborers to wear, a long chain of cultural transmission, syncretism, imitation and appropriation can be enlightened by the simple study of people' clothes.

At an age where industry rises but handcrafting remains the norm, both are intricately mixed to reveal the individual stories behind the great "History".