Image 1: Lady Elizabeth Keppell, 1760s, mezzotint, by Edward Fisher Image 2: Anti Slavery Wedgewood Medallion, 1787, jasperware and wood, by Josiah Wedgewood Image 3 and 4: Abolition of Slavery, 1807, ...

In 1787 a Quaker-led organization, the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was formed with the resolve to end the practice by force of law.

The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has been awarded a significant grant to support the acquisition of its first painting to depict the powerful and resonant iconography of abolition.

Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art & Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 (020-7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk), 20 February to 17 June Join our commenting forum ...

It was purchased using a £50,000 Art Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund grant. A museum spokeswoman said the painting, ... Slavery and abolition in the UK. From about 1500 to about 1865, ...

Curator Nicole Fleetwood grew up in the late ’80s and early ’90s in a working-class, post-industrial town called Hamilton, Ohio. Today marks a full circle moment for the academic and activist ...

Tao Leigh Goffe, Andrea Chung, The great experiment – the Trinidad experiment: art, abolition and racial indenture across archipelagoes, Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, Vol. 1, No. 1 ...

“Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition,” a stunning new collection, provides a stage from which the voices of Black men, women and children sing the long struggle ...