Event Details - William Earle Williams Photographs: The of Legacy of the Slave Trade in England

The of Legacy of the Slave Trade in England is an exhibition of 50 black and white photographs  by William Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities and Curator of Photography at Haverford College. He has been photographing  slave cultural and related sites since 1986 in North America and the Caribbean.  His latest  work made in England documents historical sites related to the slave trade in London, Bristol, and Liverpool.

The Transatlantic slave trade was dominated by the British from the 17^th century to the beginning of the 19^th century. Its legacy in England is not manifested in plantation fields and grand houses connected to large scale use of slave labor and its export to the British Colonies in the New World. Instead, this legacy is urban and embodied in the physical spaces of its  principal slave trading port cities of London, Bristol and Liverpool.