The lost African slavery and portraiture in the age of enlightenment: there are very few portraits of 18th-century black people in Britain. Rarer still is the high quality of this celebrated painting in Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum, but who is the sitter--and who is the artist? John Madin argues that it is a portrait of the great anti-slavery writer Ignatius Sancho, by Allan Ramsay.(Critical essay)

Apollo | August 1, 2006| | Copyright

In 2007 we will commemorate a human tragedy on a massive transcontinental scale. Britain's abolition of its slave trade in 1807 brought to an end an enterprise that had inflicted unimaginable suffering upon millions of Africans. By the 18th century, Britain had become the most successful slave-trading nation in Europe. Thousands of slaves were brought into the country as cheap domestic labour, but despite the recent achievements of historians the vast majority of these people will not be remembered as individuals. In the households of the wealthy, black slaves or indentured ...

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