Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin'

Author(s)

• Donington, Katie
• Hanley, Ryan
• Moody, Jessica

Bibliographic Information

Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin'

edited by Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody

（Liverpool studies in international slavery, 11）

Liverpool University Press, 2021

• : pbk

Other Title

Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a "national sin"

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody Part I Little Britain's History of Slavery 1 From Guinea to Guernsey and Cornwall to the Caribbean: Recovering the History of Slavery in the Western English Channel Brycchan Carey 2 'There to sing the song of Moses': John Jea's Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801-1817 Ryan Hanley 3 Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of Liverpool Jane Longmore 4 Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave Ownership Hannah Young 5 East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c. 1757-1857 Chris Jeppesen Part II: Little Britain's Memory of Slavery 6 Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-Remembering Catherine Hall 7 Liverpool's Local Tints: Drowning Memory and 'Maritimising' Slavery in a Seaport City Jessica Moody 8 Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in Hackney Katie Donington 9 Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow Michael Morris 10 Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Olney Leanne Munroe Afterword John Oldfield Selected Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BD0115537X
• ISBN:
  • 9781800348677
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Liverpool
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 271 p., [4] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 306.3620941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History
  • LCSH : Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- Public opinion
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA90774167