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This touchstone exemplifies how written and material cultures of law are key sources for recovering the histories of people of African descent in the Atlantic world, by examining a portrait created before the Dutch arrival.
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This essay demonstrates how enslaved Africans are central to the emergence of art museums.
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Although sugar consumption may have been the driving force behind the violent enslavement of millions of Africans, the Atlantic slave trade was sustained by a range of global commodities, most notably textiles. The digitization of European trading company records has advanced the study of the slave trade, but also risks perpetuating the inequities of the archival record.
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This text highlights a graphic by Amsterdam designer Tessel Dekker of SegoliaWorld that calls attention to the racist tradition of Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) in the Netherlands. The discussion unpacks the imagery and the complex histories of slavery and denial imbricated within it.