New film by UBP Fellow on William Lindsay Windus’ The Black Boy

William L. Windus, ‘The Black Boy’ (1844) © 2024 National Museums Liverpool

We are very pleased to share a new film produced by one of our 2024 Fellows, Kate Haselden, which illustrates her research into one of the only examples of a portrait depicting an individual Black person within National Museums Liverpool’s collection: William Lindsay Windus’ The Black Boy (1844).

In her project, Kate examined this striking portrait of an unnamed Black child in Liverpool through three interconnected areas: the history of Liverpool’s Black community, the experiences of Black children in Britain and the Black presence in nineteenth-century British portraiture. This project will eventually form the basis of the future interpretation of The Black Boy in the re-developed International Slavery Museum following the Waterfront Transformation Project.

To view Kate’s film, visit our Films page.