For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

I have always admired the importance of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson’s beautifully written document, ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Slave traders Beckford and Cass who are commemorated at Guildhall have been reinterpreted in City of London project exploring ...

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every ...

This Saturday (July 5), the Ashé Cultural Arts Center will lead a procession in remembrance of the horrors of the slave trade ...

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Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

The Slavery North exhibit runs until June 6 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The debate over Edward Colston’s statue goes to the heart of the visual politics of memory and history. What can Britain learn from France’s treatment of its slave-trading past?

Historically, studies of the transatlantic slave trade in early modern painting (about 1400-1700) have looked at paintings that directly depict either enslaved or black individuals. One of the points ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.