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Intervention and Reflection – Black Atlantic at the Fitzwilliam Museum
by Tomas Brown In 1816, Richard Fitzwilliam bequeaths £100,000, his library, and art collection to the University of Cambridge, accumulated through the wealth of his slave trading grandfather. This money supports the Fitzwilliam Museum to this day.[1] Later in the nineteenth century, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is constructed around categories such as ‘social…
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