A section on healing which “requires reckoning with the past” is part of a new exhibition about slavery.
A multi-media exhibition about slavery, that just opened in Cape Town, makes space for something often overlooked in this conversation — healing.
The exhibition, ‘In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World’, is a reminder of what people in many parts of the world endured during Europe’s colonial period, as well as the many people who resisted it.
It depicts slave routes, stories of enslaved people, the abolition movement and the enduring effects of slavery in today's society.
This international exhibition is currently housed in multiple rooms at the Iziko South African National Gallery, in the Company’s Garden, until October. It has already been shown in the United States and Brazil, both countries with slave histories.
