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Free your mind... ; An exhibition in Hull reveals William Blake to have been a vociferous opponent of slavery. Tom Lubbock asks why the artist and visionary still isn't afforded the recognition he deserves

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070402
Author:Tom Lubbock

It won't have escaped you that this year we're commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, nor that the occasion has (quite rightly) become contentious. What promised to be a feast of moral self-congratulation has raised bitter and indigestible questions all round, about historical evil and responsibility, power and victimhood, memory, lasting damage, repentance, amends. It's proving to be a very productive bicentenary.

But it may have escaped you that this year is also the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake. There have been, and will be, a few ...

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