London museum covers up exhibition portrait to 'reclaim Caribbean history'

London museum covers up exhibition portrait to 'reclaim Caribbean history'

London Museum Docklands has draped a multicoloured fabric over an early 19th-century portrait in a bid to "reclaim Caribbean history"

London Museum HIDES Portrait Behind Cloth To ‘RECLAIM’ Caribbean History

In yet another brazen attempt to erase history, the London Museum Docklands has half-covered a portrait of 18th-century merchant Beeston Long with Madras cloth, all in the name of “reclaim[ing] Caribbean history.” This symbolic shrouding targets Long’s investments in Jamaican plantations, turning a piece of British maritime legacy into a virtue-signaling prop. Critics see this as part of the left’s relentless campaign to erase uncomfortable trut…

Museum Half Covers Up Slave Trader Portrait to ‘Reclaim History’

A museum has half-hidden a portrait of a slave trader with Madras cloth, a material exported to the Caribbean during the colonial period, in a bid to "reclaim Caribbean history".