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 ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

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.

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 ...

Slavery was abolished in Suriname and the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean on July 1, 1863, but most of the enslaved laborers were forced to continue working on plantations for 10 more years.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands apologized Saturday for his country's role in slavery and asked for forgiveness during a historic speech greeted by cheers and ...

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 ...

THE Queen’s enormous art collection is being “woke- tested” so as not to offend snowflakes.Curators are reviewing pieces “relating to race, en. ... who delayed the abolition of slavery.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized Saturday for his country's role in slavery and asked for forgiveness in a historic speech greeted by cheers and whoops at an event to commemorate the annive ...

Spectators react to Dutch King Willem-Alexander's apology for the royal house's role in slavery at event commemorating abolition anniversary in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 1, 2023.