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A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, will explore the city’s, and its famous university’s, links to the slave trade and exploitation.
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 21 Jun 2023
A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, will explore the city’s, and its famous university’s, links to the slave trade and exploitation.
Called ‘Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resiliance, the exhibition explores how Atlantic enslavement and the Black Atlantic – new cultures produced by people who resisted colonial slavery in the Americas between 1400 and 1900 – impacted the University of Cambridge’s collections.
The exhibition will include works created in the Caribean, West Africa, South America and Europe, alongside historic pieces in dialogue with works by modern and contemporary black artists including Jacqueline Bishop, Barbara Walker, Donald Locke, Alberta Whittle and Keith Piper.
The museum says that by questioning how Atlantic enslavement and the Black Atlantic shaped the university’s collections led to new discoveries about Cambridge’s connection to colonialism.
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