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A series of exhibitions exploring the theme of slavery runs at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the parliamentary act to abolish the transatlantic slave trade.
Art As Orchestrating Abolition, Decarceration, and Community “If art wasn’t the right tool [for social impact], it wouldn’t be so underfunded, so undervalued, so ignored and misunderstood.” ...
Now comes “Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change,” an exhibition on how British art was implicated by slavery, with historic depictions of enslaved people displayed alongside ...
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2023: Be it the contemporary forms of slavery or child labour, the various forms of slavery still exist in this world.Every year, millions of lives ...
Liverpool's slavery apology By Paul Coslett When, in 1999, Liverpool made a formal apology for the city’s role in the slave trade it sparked a storm of controversy.
A number of events have taken place in Scotland to mark the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade. Church leaders and politicians joined a walk from Musselburgh to Inveresk Lodge ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...