Hans Sloane Exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library

"Voyage to the Islands: Has Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the
Caribbean" opens May 3 at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibition is guest curated by
James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University and
Library, and the Natural History Museum in London.

This exhibition uses the collections of the John Carter Brown Library to explore the relationship between early modern scientific knowledge, the Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora in the Caribbean islands. While historians have long stressed the importance of travel in the making of early modern natural history, the relation between the natural sciences and European interactions with Africans through the slave trade has only recently received attention. Examining the intersection of science and slavery allows us to see how Africans in diaspora both contributed to European sciences and maintained their own knowledge traditions in opposition to them.

For the press announcement see here:
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/images/sloane.pdf

The online version of the exhibition can be found here:
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library//sloane/index.html