New stories from the Black Atlantic

The exhibition and accompanying book Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, edited by Jake Subryan Richards and Victoria Avery, examines the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery and resistance movements through a selection of paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In this excerpt from the book, Jake Subryan Richards unpacks what several 17th- and 18th-century Dutch paintings reveal about slavery, trade and empire. Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance. Jake Subryan Richards and Victoria Avery. Philip Wilson Publishers. 2023.