Exeter City Council’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) has announced a major new exhibition exploring the museum and Devon’s links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade in early 2022.
In Plain Sight: Transatlantic slavery and Devon will investigate aspects of Devon and Exeter’s relationship with the Transatlantic Slave Trade that are all around us, but for some remain ‘hidden in plain sight’. Using RAMM’s collections and the expertise of many contributors, it aims to shed light on this hidden history.
The exhibition is the result of research that began in 2018, to reveal more about the region’s history and connections to the transatlantic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Given its Victorian origins, the museum has had donors and patrons who have documented links with individuals, organisations and families who profited from trafficking enslaved people, as well as collections that contain evidence of the trade and its reach into Devon. Originally planned for 2020, the Covid-19 emergency and lockdown forced the…
