Art
Dread Scott Celebrates a Long-forgotten Rebellion as a Moment of Resilience
Merging past and present Scott magnifies what has been reduced in American history to a plaque on a highway.
Slavery
News
London’s National Gallery Identifies 67 Museum Patrons Connected to Slavery
A new report by the museum names the "art collectors, connoisseurs, donors, and founders of museums and galleries across Britain" who benefitted from enslavement.
Art
The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey's documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
News
After Student Pressure, Harvard Law School Ditches Logo Connected to Slavery
The former shield featured the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., who made his wealth through the labor of enslaved people.
History
What Can Shackled and Beheaded Skeletons Reveal About Roman Servitude?
The mere mention of slavery continues to grab attention, even if the evidence is inconclusive.
News
First Online Slavery Database Gets a $1.4M Injection From Mellon Foundation
Enslaved.org houses millions of records related to more than 600,000 enslaved people and their descendants, emancipation activists, and enslavers.
News
British Museum Will Move Bust of its Founding Donor, a Colonialist and Slaveowner
Sir Hans Sloane’s bust will be moved from prominent display to a secure cabinet alongside artifacts explaining his work in the context of the British empire.
Art
Slavery and the Dehumanization of Modern Life
Through texts and objects, Cameron Rowland illuminates the connection between slavery and the commercial structures that define the global economy today.
Art
The Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town
At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
Art
The Lesser-Known History of Slavery in California
California Bound recounts a tumultuous history of mass migration, displacement, and litigation that led to the establishment of California’s earliest African American communities.
Art
Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
News
Duke University Decides to Leave Former Site of Robert E. Lee Memorial Vacant
A year after removing the statue, Duke University decides to leave the site of the former Confederate monument empty to "provide a powerful statement about the past, the present and our values."