“In the past three decades black social actors, committed curators, public historians, and academics have pushed western museums to examine slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in their exhibition spaces. But the introduction of slavery in the museum has been very problematic…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo. For further reading: <a href='https://www.routledge.com/Museums-and-Atlantic-Slavery/Araujo/p/book/9780367530082'>Museums and Atlantic Slavery</a> by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge, 2021)

“In the past three decades black social actors, committed curators, public historians, and academics have pushed western museums to examine slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in their exhibition spaces. But the introduction of slavery in the museum has been very problematic…” So begins today’s story from Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo. For further reading: Museums and Atlantic Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge, 2021)

“In the past three decades black social actors, committed curators, public historians, and academics have pushed western museums to examine slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in their exhibition spaces. But the introduction of slavery in the museum has been very problematic…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo.&nbsp;For further reading: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Museums-and-Atlantic-Slavery/Araujo/p/book/9780367530082" rel="noopener noreferrer">Museums and Atlantic Slavery</a> by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge, 2021)

Addressing Slavery in the Museum

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