Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

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

• 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

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