Library Mini-Exhibit Highlights End of Slave Trade

"Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1807," a mini-exhibit now in the small exhibit cases near the Lantern entrance, showcases rare materials commemorating the bicentennial of the end of England's trade of slaves from Africa.

Esmeralda Kale, Bibliographer of Africana, and Kathleen Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, created the display in homage to the historical event, to complement the "Fifty Years of African Independence" exhibit, and to recognize the success of the Art History department's recent conference, "Out of Sight: New World Slavery and the Visual Imagination." The exhibit features important publications from the Rare Books collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections.

Poster by John Kannenberg