Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery
Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley, and Jessica Moody
Abstract
This book brings together new research from established and emerging scholars whose work focuses on Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and the slave trade. These chapters focus on the ‘small stories’ of slavery and abolition within the ‘local’ experiences of individuals and communities who were nonetheless part of the ‘national sin’ of slavery. Broken down into two parts, Part One considers some small scale specifics of Britain’s history of slavery and the slave trade, and Part Two considers how this history and its legacies has been remembered (or not) through individual pe ... More
This book brings together new research from established and emerging scholars whose work focuses on Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and the slave trade. These chapters focus on the ‘small stories’ of slavery and abolition within the ‘local’ experiences of individuals and communities who were nonetheless part of the ‘national sin’ of slavery. Broken down into two parts, Part One considers some small scale specifics of Britain’s history of slavery and the slave trade, and Part Two considers how this history and its legacies has been remembered (or not) through individual people and in particular places. The book contains chapters which consider how people became involved in the slave trade, slavery and the campaign to end it, and covers such places as the Channel Islands, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Buckinghamshire and Portsmouth.
Keywords:
Slavery,
Slave Trade,
Transatlantic slave trade,
Atlantic slave trade,
Abolition,
Memory,
Public History,
British history,
Britain,
Local
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781781382776 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781781382776.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Katie Donington, editor
University of Nottingham
Ryan Hanley, editor
New College, Oxford
Jessica Moody, editor
Portsmouth University
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