The remembrance of slavery in material culture / James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York, UK.

New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, 2017.

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (80 minutes))

Lecture presented at the Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall on January 24, 2017: Reminders of slavery are everywhere, though we often overlook them. Look closely, and you will find them in the material culture we value so highly: from porcelain sugar bowls to mahogany tables, from necklaces of cowrie shells to the world of print and graphic art. Slaves not only enhanced the material well-being of the Western world but they also made possible the material culture we value-though often without seeing its slave origins. Organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, this lecture will serve as a prelude to the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, which opens on February 2.

Online / Video & Film

English

March 07, 2017

Mode of access: Internet.