News
Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
Slavery
News
Image Attesting to Horrors of Slavery Reportedly Ordered Removed by Trump
The famous 19th-century photograph of a formerly enslaved man is reproduced at the Fort Pulaski National Monument, a Civil War battle site in Georgia.
News
Trump Says US Museums Should Focus Less on Slavery
The president’s efforts to influence the Smithsonian, an independent institution, have raised alarm among museum advocacy organizations.
Features
New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
Book Review
Why Isn’t Slavery Depicted in Dutch Painting?
Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.
Book Review
Why Isn’t Slavery Depicted in Dutch Painting?
Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.
News
Yale University Acknowledges Its Role in Slavery
Many of the school’s founders and early leaders enslaved Black and Indigenous people, Yale said in a public apology.
News
Rijksmuseum’s Slavery Exhibition Is Coming to New York
The extensive exhibition confronts the Netherlands’s often-forgotten colonialist legacy.
Art
Shining a Light on a Dark Chapter of American Pottery
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience.
Opinion
Harvard Is Paying a Small Price for Laundering Its Past
The first and best thing the university can do to atone for its past of exploitation and profiteering is simply to renounce its present-day exploitation and profiteering.
News
Harvard Enslaved Over 70 People, New Report Finds
The school announced a $100 million fund to “redress” its legacies with slavery, but holds on to daguerreotypes of Tamara Lanier’s enslaved ancestors.
Podcast
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, Lanier talks about her continuing quest for justice that includes the return of the daguerreotypes depicting her enslaved ancestors.