Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’
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2016
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781781382776
Publisert
2016-10-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
285
Om bidragsyterne
Katie Donington is a Research Fellow with the Antislavery Usable Past project, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, University of Nottingham Ryan Hanley is Salvesen Junior Fellow in History at New College, Oxford. Jessica Moody is a Lecturer in Public History at University of Bristol
Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this ‘national sin’ by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the ‘Middle Passage’, and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain’s history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.
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This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals and families, regional identity narratives, sites of memory and forgetting, and the financial, architectural and social legacies of slave-ownership.
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica MoodyPart I Little Britain’s History of Slavery1 From Guinea to Guernsey and Cornwall to the Caribbean: Recovering the History of Slavery in the Western English Channel Brycchan Carey2 ‘There to sing the song of Moses’: John Jea’s Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801–1817 Ryan Hanley3 Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of Liverpool Jane Longmore4 Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave Ownership Hannah Young5 East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c. 1757–1857 Chris JeppesenPart II: Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery6 Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-Remembering Catherine Hall7 Liverpool’s Local Tints: Drowning Memory and ‘Maritimising’ Slavery in a Seaport City Jessica Moody8 Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in Hackney Katie Donington9 Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow Michael Morris10 Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Olney Leanne MunroeAfterword John OldfieldSelected BibliographyIndex
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Reviews
'Focusing on various dimensions of the history and memory of the Atlantic slave trade in different regions of Britain, this comprehensive book is an important and very welcome contribution to scholarship in the field.'
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781781382776
Publisert
2016-10-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
285