Torture and punishments of slavery transatlantic through art

The exhibion  explores the violence, torture, and punishments of transatlantic slavery. This exhibition, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, invites viewers to contemplate and understand, through art, the repercussions of racial slavery. The exhibition, based on over 18 engravings and illustrations from 19th-century magazines, books, and historical newspapers belonging to the museum's collection, invites viewers to witness and reflect, through art, on the brutal system characterized by extreme violence, systematic torture, and inhumane conditions to which enslaved people were subjected for more than 400 years. This landmark initiative, co-curated by Alejandra Rosa Morales, reaffirms that the transatlantic slave trade was one of the most egregious crimes of exploitation and inequality in human history.