Rise Up 1 is the successor to the Fitzwilliam’s exhibition Black Atlantic, reviewed in a previous issue of ABRD (Carson 2024). Like the first exhibition it combines artefacts and texts from museum, archive and library collections with new art works which interrogate and interpret the history and ongoing legacies of slavery, resistance and emancipation in Britain and the Black Atlantic. Both exhibitions owe much to the University of Cambridge’s ‘Legacies of Enslavement’ project. 2 They tackle head on issues around national, university, institutional and individual entanglement with the slave trade and plantation slavery, questioning how to react in the present to profits and investments from the outrages and abuses of the past.
Terry Barringer (2026) studied this question.