Dona Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva was the most renowned high society hostess of 19th century Luanda. She was an Angol…
Tag: slavery
Whip it Good: Artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back
Jeannette Ehlers’ ‘Whip it Good’ seeks to create poetry between aesthetics and the brutality of the creation of an artwo…
The romanticism of history, and the (Afro)future of Brazil’s quilombos
Brazil imported more African slaves than any other country in the Western Hemisphere. With over four million enslaved br…
The Queering Slavery Working Group
Since I first started out selecting digital projects for this series, I have been struck by the wide range of forms and …
Remembering Slavery in South Africa
“I recognized Cape Town the first time I saw it,” Deborah Thomas revealed at a lecture she gave in the city in July 2014…
Remembering Differently
The Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot opens his remarkable work “Silencing the Past” by pointing to the ambiguity o…
The Economist magazine has had a “Slavery Problem” since 1843
The Economist has a slavery problem, as Greg Grandin has recently called it. Grandin’s wonderful article is a response t…
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons
What is it with some white South Africans’ penchant for living in an a-historical bubble? Gumtree, the South Afric…
Weekend in Stellenbosch
On Sunday, walking past the Exclusive Books store, it was interesting to see Kees van der Waal’s new edited text, Winela…
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Leather from Human Skin in 1880s Philadelphia
Time and again, somehow narratives of slavery miraculously seem to always absolve the northern states of the United Stat…