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Slavery

August 2024

  • A large scale sculpture shows a man and woman looking to the sky and emerging from the water

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

    Emancipation Jubilee event hears apologies, including from the Guardian, in ‘important step’ towards reparatory justice

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

  • 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

  • A house built to be dismantled quickly … Under the skin of the ocean, the thing urges us up wild, by Whittle.

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

  • M Dores Cruz, center, and her team carry out an archaeological dig on Sao Tome in 2023.

    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

  • America's dirty divide
    New York City Audubon changes name to distance itself from racist namesake

  • Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

  • Will the Anglican church come clean and pay its debt over slavery? Not from what we have seen so far

    Robert Beckford

May 2024

  • A clamour of touches, moods and modes … Grace by Alvaro Barrington, standing front.

    Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen

    From a sticky Caribbean thunderstorm to the cocaine-fuelled violence of the New York street corner, the artist takes us through the highs and lows of his journey to the present moment
  • A view from the classical portico of Codrington College, which was established on the sugar plantation formerly owned by the Church of England’s missionary arm.

    Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

    Documents from Lambeth Palace archives show how one of Justin Welby’s predecessors approved the purchase of enslaved people for the notorious Codrington sugar estate
  • Codrington College, an Anglican theological college in St John, Barbados.

    Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy

    Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop
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