There is a resurgence in England from historians who argue that the history of slaves and Blacks in general have throughout Europe, especially the UK, been minimised, trivialised and severely devalued in order to please the ‘sensitivities’ of Europeans.

Now historians want history books that capture, depict, write about and analyse Black history with the stark honesty and reality base in which it truly deserves to be seen. In other words, it is very disrespectful to write a book that highlighting the talents of the artist without honestly apprising the conditions and brutality of slavery and segregation, the severe lack of basic fundamental rights of the human condition of Blacks. It’s not only disrespectful in 2014 it’s arrogant as we know better. We admire the artist but overlook or under-look the sheer subject matter of our historic times, as we view it right before our very eyes?

It would be very appropriate to ask Dr Eva Hodgson to either pen an analysis of what these paintings meant in that time frame, or be involved in this project in some meaningful way.

UK historians now believe that much of Black history was recounted by European historians is nothing more than a ‘white wash’, skipped over in a continuance to devalue and discount our period in history – except – when it improved their economic worth in society.

Slavery, segregation and institutional racism are very harsh and brutal realities of our history, our human history and very few can be objective enough to do it justice.

London, England