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Antislavery Usable Past

This archive collects the visual culture and narratives of contemporary antislavery, as well as heritage and public history projects that grapple with past and present slavery and antislavery. Its collections are a resource for understanding cultures of antislavery activism and protest memory.

Featured: The Bakhita Initiative

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Remembering 1807

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Reading's Slave Links Hertfordshire's Hidden Histories Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery (Museum of Science and Industry) “It wisnae us!” Glasgow’s built heritage, tobacco, the slave trade and abolition Am I Not a Man and a Brother? Bexley: The Slavery Connection Sweet History? Anti-Slavery International, 2007 The Iniquity of Slavery Remembering Slavery 2007
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Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums

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National Museum of the Royal Navy Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery The Rum Story: The Dark Spirit of Whitehaven Cowper & Newton Museum Wisbech and Fenland Museum People's History Museum Wilberforce House Museum National Maritime Museum Museum of London Docklands International Slavery Museum
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Exhibiting the Congo

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Women of the Congo: Photography of Isabel Muñoz and Concha Casajús, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Madrid (17 March - 18 June 2017) Carriers of Culture: Women, Food and Power from the Congo Basin, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (October 2016 – March 2017) Keeping the Past Alive, UCL Anthropology Foyer (October 2015 - December 2015) 53 echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of Congo, Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery, London (27 May – 30 June 2015) The Memory of the Congo in the Colonial Era, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tevuren, Belgium ( 4 February 2005 - 9 October 2005) Artists in Residence. Sammy Baloji & Patrick Mudekereza,<br /> Congo Far West, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tevuren, Belgium (11 May – 4 September 2011)<br /> Kongo: Power and Majesty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (18 September 2015 - January 3 2016) Kongo Across the Waters, Princeton Art Museum (25 October 2014 - 25 January 2015) 'When harmony goes to hell'. Congo Dialogues: Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji, Rivington Place, London (16 January - 7 March 2014) Brutal Exposure, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (24 January 2015 - 7 June 2015)
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Photography and the Congolese Diaspora

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Ma J.M. Kilapi S.S. Mundeke O.M. Kitenge Mikuly Lydia's 2 Light De Londres Bercy Salon The Bash P.O.T Kings
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Alice Seeley Harris Archive

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Parasite which grips the palm tree – in its early stage Flowering palm at Lukolela, upper Congo Red blossom on trunk of tree, Kasai forest Palm tree in grip of parasite, Kasai River Birds' nest and grass from the Kasai Mr. Harris in bamboo avenue at Lisala, Stanley Falls District Congo tree which bears fruit on its trunk Cotton grown in Catumbella, Angola Tree ferns, Ikelemba forest Man walking up Borassus palm by means of loop of forest cane.
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VOICES: Narratives by Survivors of Modern Slavery

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Jean-Robert Christine Christina Choti Ashok Mende Maria Suarez Kavita Beatrice A Vi
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Decomposing the Colonial Gaze

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Yole!Africa: Student Photographs<br /> Yole!Africa: Student Photographs<br /> Yole!Africa: Student Photographs<br /> Yole!Africa: Student Photographs<br /> Danze: A Film by Yole!Africa Decolonising the Colonial Gaze Yole!Africa: Student Photographs Yole!Africa: Student Photographs Yole!Africa: Student Photographs
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Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture

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Procession of Native Dancers Port Scene Wooden Shackles Rev. John Harris Head of a Man by John Simpson Ivory Carriers An Ivory Store Collection Plate A Group of African Children John H. Harris and E. D. Morel, The Congo Atrocities: A lecture to accompany a series of 60 photographic slides
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Murals

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African American Experience The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America Cramton Auditorium Mural Historic Rochester Mural Frederick Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln Wall of Meditation Frederick Douglass Amistad Murals Wall of Respect All in the Same Gang
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Congo Antislavery Visual Culture

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Lukula Station, Mayumbe country, lower Congo Mr. Harris with Stanley's camera. (Now in possession of Rev. J. Whitehead) Evening scene in riverside village of Boondi, Aruwimi. Oldest residents saw Stanley pass down from Yambuya to Basoko Missionary's house at Yalemba. Material imported from Europe. Mr. Harris on verandah No caption [anti-slavery delegation to London?] No caption [three native men] Canoe with produce on the Aruwimi Aruwimi chief wearing hat of monkey skin Ngombe man of Boputo, upper Congo No original caption Mrs Harris with group of African soldiers and others
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