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History Workshop Journal 2009 68(1):223-233; doi:10.1093/hwj/dbn068
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of History Workshop Journal, all rights reserved.

Uncomfortable Commemorations

Beth Kowaleski Wallace

kowalesk{at}bc.edu


  Abstract

What is the legacy of the national conversation that took place during 2007, the bicentennial anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade? New approaches, as seen in eight British museum exhibitions, demonstrate an intensified interest in the plurality of African experiences, and they express new views on the historical relationship of the developed to the developing world.

‘Uncomfortable Truths: the Shadow of Slave Trade on Contemporary Art’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 20 February to 17 June 2007
‘Portraits, People, and Abolition’, National Portrait Gallery, London, 17 March to 22 July 2007
William Wilberforce House, Hull, reopened 25 March, 2007
‘Breaking the Chains: the Fight to End Slavery’, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, 23 April 2007 to October 2008
‘The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People’, Westminster Hall, London, 23 May to 23 September 2007
The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, opened August 23, 2007
‘London: Sugar and Slavery: Revealing our City's Untold Story’, Museum of London, Docklands, opened 10 November 2007
‘Atlantic Worlds’, National Maritime Museum, London, opened 30 November 2007


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