This article discusses exhibitions at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester and in museums in Lancaster that responded to the commemoration of the bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in Britain in 1807. It argues, using Bakhtin's idea of dialogism, that these institutions used their own collections as the starting point for radical interventions that sought to complicate traditional historical narratives. Both featured the work of contemporary artists including Godfried Donkor, Lubaina Himid and Sue Flowers as key elements in the dialogisation. The article examines the curatorial decisions of the teams involved in the exhibitions and contextualises them for both their historical and contemporary significance.
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