Art denotes strategy, ingenuity, and imagination. While slaveholders and vigilantes threatened and attempted to control Black bodily autonomy in various ways across the Atlantic world, enslaved people and their allies artfully countered this malevolence via everyday and more formally coordinated kinds of resistance. With a principal focus on American and British efforts, this exhibition highlights how slavery abolitionists used a diversity of art, including rebellion, speeches and pamphlets, novels, slave narratives, newspapers, poetry, music, and the visual arts, to agitate for enslaved peoples’ right to liberty and equality.
Sunday CLOSED
Mon, Thu - Sat 10 AM–6 PM
Tue & Wed 10am – 8pm
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd. (135th St & Malcolm X Blvd)
New York, NY
40.8146271, -73.9409189
Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition
