Slavery on Display: Afro-Atlantic Histories, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. On view April 10, 2022 – July 17, 2022 Catalogue: Pedrosa, A., and Tomás Toledo, eds. Afro-Atlantic Histories. New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.: L'abîme: Nantes dans la traite atlantique et l'esclavage colonial, 1707–1830, Musée d'histoire de Nantes, Nantes, France On view October 16, 2021 – June 19, 2022 Catalogue: Gualdé, Krystel. L'abîme: Nantes dans la traite atlantique et l'esclavage colonial, 1707–1830. Nantes: Les éditions du Château des Ducs, 2021.: Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY On view March 10, 2022 – March 5, 2023 Catalogue: Nelson, E., and Wendy S. Walters, eds. Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.: Slavery and the Bank, Bank of England Museum, London, United Kingdom On view April 11, 2022 – April 28, 2023

The article focuses on four art exhibitions that deal with Atlantic-world slavery. Topics include "Afro-Atlantic Histories" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, "L'abîme" at the Château de Ducs de Bretagne in Nantes, "Slavery and the Bank" at the Bank of England in London, and "Fictions of Emancipation" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City exploring how art can inspire political change in the future as well as the limits of broaching the abstraction of slavery.