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Slavery

August 2024

  • An overhead, twilight view of dozens of people in a wide circle, most of African descent and wearing white, with a man and a woman in the center.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    A coffee plantation in Brazil enslaved Africans. Centuries later, their descendants have taken over

  • Zadie Smith

    On my radar
    On my radar: Zadie Smith’s cultural highlights

  • Trevor Burnard Wilberforce Institute - 3887 high res

    Trevor Burnard obituary

  • Joan Brady at her home in Oxford, 2015. She translated life into fiction, and turned to thriller writing after a legal battle with her local council.

    Joan Brady obituary

  • How I Learned to Swim review – a dive into the deep waters of Black aquatic history

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘It speaks of heritage’: South Carolina sweetgrass festival preserves Gullah Geechee culture

  • ‘Our history is intertwined’: heirs of Jamaican enslavers apologise to descendants of the enslaved

July 2024

  • A Story of Bones still shows a person looking out to see from the island

    A Story of Bones review – the battle to right Saint Helena’s colonial wrongs

  • Headshot of Trevor Burnard smiling

    Tributes paid to historian lauded for work on Atlantic slavery

  • The lifesize bronze sculpture of the writer Aphra Behn ready to leave the foundry.

    A Netflix film, statue and a newly discovered first edition: joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn

  • The moment the statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol harbour in 2020.

    Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows

  • How race influences our perception of art

  • ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

  • ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

  • Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

June 2024

  • brick building with three rows of windows in the city

    Public artwork reframes US history of enslavement through Jefferson’s valet

    The Descendants of Monticello shifts focus from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hemmings, his enslaved teen valet
  • A flag, in the pattern of the American flag, with green and red stripes, rainbow stars, and the word Juneteenth in yellow in the center.

    As Juneteenth grows in US, southern states cling to Confederate holidays

    At least 30 states officially celebrate end of slavery in US, but others pay employees to take day off to celebrate enslavers

    • Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn

    • Our unequal earth
      White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world

    • Why I was the right person to deliver the United Reformed Church’s slavery apology

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