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Silent threat

As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.

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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching

The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.

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A history of sex for sale

Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.

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Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder

Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.

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  • Example of a Roman military punishment, soldiers being sold into slavery and servitude
  • Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
  • Three illustrations of Roman military punishment: banishment, degrading punishment, and freemen degraded and sold into slavery. Etchings by A.M.I. after W. Hogarth.
  • Two black women and a boy on Lake Chad are about to be led away into slavery by a Spaniard. Stipple engraving by E. Finden, 1843, after Perring.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition. J. Stedman, 1796.
  • A meeting at Exeter Hall on the abolition of the slave trade. Engraving by H. Melville after T.H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.
  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • African men, women and children captured in order to become slaves. Lithograph, ca. 1874.
  • The execution of a Christian prisoner in Algeria by suspending him from a wooden frame by hooks penetrating his right arm and leg. Etching with engraving.
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