Representing Slavery
Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum

Explores the collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, highlighting the insights they provide into the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade and abolition from the mid-sixteenth until the early twentieth centuries. This work reveals the impact of slavery on Africa, Europe and the Americas.

"Representing Slavery" draws on the extensive collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and is published to mark the 200th anniversary of Parliament's abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. It explores the richness of the Museum's collections and highlights the unique insights they provide into the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade and abolition from the mid-sixteenth until the early twentieth centuries. Collections of art, artefacts and archives are examined across more than 600 entries, with many objects illustrated in print for the first time. Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars set the collections in their historical context, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the nature and extent of African resistance, and the widespread efforts to achieve abolition and emancipation. "Representing Slavery" reveals the astonishing range, complexity and longevity of the impact of slavery on Africa, Europe and the Americas, and the importance of the often neglected East African and Indian Ocean slave trades.

Foreword
Introduction, Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth
Slavery and mass consumption: the dynamics of the Atlantic world, James Walvin
Slavery and African society, Paul Lovejoy
Through African eyes: the Middle Passage and the British slave trade, David Richardson
Slave life in the Caribbean, Douglas Hamilton
Abolition and emancipation, John Oldfield
The Royal Navy and the global suppression of slave trades, Robert Blyth
Black people in Britain, Hakim Adi
The material culture of slave shipping, Jane Webster
The lie of the land: slavery and the aesthetics of imperial landscape in eighteenth-century British art, Geoff Quilley
Popular graphic images of slavery and emancipation in nineteenth-century England, Marcus Wood. Catalogue: Artefacts
Books, pamphlets and official publications
Coins and medals
Ethnography
Manuscripts
Maps and charts
Material culture
Newspapers and press illustrations
Oil paintings
Photographs
Prints and drawings: Africa
Prints and drawings: Caribbean
Prints and drawings: North and South America
Prints and drawings: abolition campaigns
Prints and drawings: caricatures and social satires
Prints and drawings: portraits
Prints and drawings: ships and naval actions
Bibliography
List of contributors
Index.