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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a 'National Sin' (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP)
Katie Donington (Ed.)
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Description for Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a 'National Sin' (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP)
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Donnington, Katie; Hanley, Ryan; Moody, Jessica. Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery. Num Pages: 285 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 588.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Liverpool Studies in International Slavery
Condition
New
Weight
587g
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382776
SKU
V9781781382776
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About Katie Donington (Ed.)
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
Reviews for Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a 'National Sin' (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP)
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