Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge explores founder’s slavery links https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/fitzwilliam-museum-cambridge-explores-founders-slavery-links

#History #BritishHistory #BlackHistory #HumanTrafficking #Slavery #CambridgeUniversity #Museum #Fitzwilliam

@glennf
It's an hour and a bit by train from London to #Cambridge. Then a ten minute bus ride into town. You could have Lunch, walk along the Backs, visit the #Fitzwilliam #Museum or the amazing #anthropology collection.

"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology"
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © N Chadwick - https://geograph.org.uk/p/5350752

#Satirical #print, 1835, by #French #illustrator and #lithographer Auguste Raffet (1804-1860), showing a group of worn-down #Revolutionary Era soldiers, whose #footwear are in a particularly bad state.

Text: "Le représentant a dit: Avec fer et du pain on peut aller en Chine...Il n'a pas parlé de chaussures." (The commissary said : With cold steel and bread you can get to China. He said nothing about boots.)

In the #Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge, UK.

#Satirical #print, 1835, by #French #illustrator and #lithographer Auguste Raffet (1804-1860), showing a group of worn-down #Revolutionary Era soldiers, whose #footwear are in a particularly bad state.

Text: "Le représentant a dit: Avec fer et du pain on peut aller en Chine...Il n'a pas parlé de chaussures." (The commissary said : With cold steel and bread you can get to China. He said nothing about boots.)

In the #Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge, UK.