Del 11 i serien Liverpool Studies in International Slavery

Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvKatie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-10-27
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool Studies in International Slavery
Antal sidor285
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781781382776

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionKatie 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 ChannelBrycchan Carey2 ‘There to sing the song of Moses’: John Jea’s Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801–1817Ryan Hanley3 Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of LiverpoolJane Longmore4 Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave OwnershipHannah Young5 East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c. 1757–1857Chris JeppesenPart II: Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery6 Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-RememberingCatherine Hall7 Liverpool’s Local Tints: Drowning Memory and ‘Maritimising’ Slavery in a Seaport CityJessica Moody8 Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in HackneyKatie Donington9 Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and GlasgowMichael Morris10 Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in OlneyLeanne MunroeAfterwordJohn OldfieldSelected BibliographyIndex