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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Book at Lunchtime seminar on Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery, edited and written by Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University of Oxford).
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. This collection brings together localised case studies of Britain’s history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. Editor and author Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University of Oxford) joins an expert panel to discuss these essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examining how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.

Ryan will be joined by Bob Harris (Professor of British History, University of Oxford), Padraic Scanlan (Assistant Professor in International History, LSE and Research Associate in History and Economics, Cambridge University). This event will be chaired by Sebabatso Manoeli (Lecturer in African History, University of Oxford)

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Bob Harris
Ryan Hanley
Padraic Scanlan
Sebabatso Manoeli
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Keywords
literature
book at lunchtime
slavery
transatlantic slave trade
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 13/06/2017
Duration: 00:36:30

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