So, What Exactly Does One Wear to a Slave Rebellion Reenactment, Anyway?

Last weekend, realizing of the vision of artist Dread Scott, hundreds of volunteers-in costume as 19th-century enslaved people-marched 26 miles to New Orleans's French Quarter in a reenactment of the Louisiana Slave Rebellion. The rebellion, which occurred on Jan. 8, 1811, and was suppressed by white militia two days"