He had been captured in Africa, brought to the American colonies on a ship, and sold into slavery in Maryland. Before Peale began his second day of painting with Mamout, he visited the old woman ...

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...

A museum spokeswoman said the painting, set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation, was based on a design commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade on 5 July ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade . But how did the slave ...