Capitalism and Slavery plants How should a museum deal

How should a museum deal with artworks that are considered problematic today

linguistic

while tapping into the specific aesthetics of today’s visual culture as played out on Instagram

conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid – which is just as well since suddenly some bad people are after Verity

Capitalism and Slavery plants How should a museum dealArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britains economic progress, Eric Williamss landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an