Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin' / edited by Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donington, Katie.

Hanley, Ryan.

Moody, Jessica.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 11.

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.

Slave trade.

History.

Public opinion.

Great Britain.

Slave trade--Great Britain--History--Public opinion.

Slave trade--Public opinion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 271 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 memorial, philanthropic Institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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 Carey, Brycchan 21

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 Hanley, Ryan 39

3 Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of Liverpool / Jane Longmore Longmore, Jane 60

4 Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave Ownership / Hannah Young Young, Hannah 83

5 East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c. 1757-1857 / Chris Jeppesen Jeppesen, Chris 102

Part II Little Britain's Memory of Slavery

6 Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-Remembering / Catherine Hall Hall, Catherine 129

7 Liverpool's Local Tints: Drowning Memory and 'Maritimising' Slavery in a Seaport City / Jessica Moody Moody, Jessica 150

8 Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in Hackney / Katie Donington Donington, Katie 172

9 Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow / Michael Morris Morris, Michael 195

10 Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Olney / Leanne Munroe Munroe, Leanne 216.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1781382778

9781781382776

OCLC:

946007259