The Tervuren Museum erased Belgian slaveholding while spotlighting Arab slavers

Evidence

There are only very occasional references to slavery throughout the Museum, and where there are they are always to Arab slavers, never to Belgian slavery, Belgian or European engagement in enslavement or in the slave trade. Africans petrified; Arabs enslaving; Europeans civilized. Reinforcing at once the orientalizing sense of Arab viciousness underpinning their market cunning, entrepreneurship, and threatening competitiveness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 900 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leopold framed Belgian expansion as ending slavery while practicing it; Belgian colonial museums erased European slavery while blaming Arab slave traders — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 900; Tervuren Museum statues depict Arabs not Europeans as slaveholders (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Belgian colonial museums erased European slavery while blaming Arab slave traders #expands (0.94) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 900
• Tervuren Museum statues depict Arabs not Europeans as slaveholders #exemplifies (0.93)