Abstract

Tate Britain, London, 12 September 2019 to 2 February 2020 Tate Britain was built partly on the profits of slavery, from the toil on the sugar plantations of Alabama and the Caribbean.1 The Tate & Lyle business flourished with the blood, sweat, and tears of captive Africans forcibly transported or born captive in the British colonies. Perhaps it’s a form of atonement for this legacy for the Tate to embrace an artist who believed in emancipation and social justice. William Blake died almost 200 years ago in 1827, two decades …

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