Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery
Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from…
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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery
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. 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. 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.
These essays, ranging in focus from 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.
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