Ana Lucia Araujo
Brazilian-born historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora; professor of history at Howard University; author of Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade and Humans in Shackles.
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Their wordsI love writing books, more than anything else, but the book format is limiting. It forces us to put an end on stories that are endless
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsan apology is a symbolic gesture of recognition of wrongdoing that can be followed or not by symbolic reparations and financial and material reparations.
↗Pope Leon XIV's Unprecedented Apology for Atlantic Slaveryaraujohistorian.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn other words, broadly speaking, reparations for the victims of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery and their descendants never happened
↗Pope Leon XIV's Unprecedented Apology for Atlantic Slaveryaraujohistorian.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe Catholic Church made its wealth from slavery.
↗Pope Leon XIV's Unprecedented Apology for Atlantic Slaveryaraujohistorian.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 15 months earlier
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Their wordsin the context of a British museum, any attempt to tell this history will always be incomplete.
↗How should pre-colonial Africa be curated in the museum context?araujohistorian.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBy doing so, the museum failed to explain the processes of enslavement in West Central Africa, the most important slave-exporting region, dominated by Luso-Brazilian slave merchants.
↗How should pre-colonial Africa be curated in the museum context?araujohistorian.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBut both the exhibition and the book that try to tell everything are doomed to fail.
↗How should pre-colonial Africa be curated in the museum context?araujohistorian.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsYet, no European museum of European cultures would dare to mix together disparate objects from different cultures, regions, and periods in the same display.
↗How should pre-colonial Africa be curated in the museum context?araujohistorian.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece