Historically, studies of the transatlantic slave trade in early modern painting (about 1400-1700) have looked at paintings that directly depict either enslaved or Black individuals.

While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – ...

its members will walk the halls of a building whose paintings and statues pay homage to 141 enslavers. As part of a year-long investigation into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The ...

Like George Morland's painting entitled The Slave Trade, the scene is set on the African coast. Unlike Morland's version, which captures the moment when an African couple is separated, Biard's ...

Dozens of fourth graders were asked to imagine they were slaves Thursday as they packed themselves into a small gallery at the Carnegie Center for the Visual Arts in Decatur. Jessica Emrick, exhibit ...

The exhibition “A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art" closes March 2 at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, Minn. Why are there no paintings of slave ships?

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