British History in the Long-eighteenth CenturyAntislavery and empire: The imperial context of British Abolitionism, c. 1783-1793Matthew Wyman-McCarty (McGill)22 February 2012This is a guest post by Kathryn Hemingway, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the...
Franco-British History19 May 2011Catherine Hall (UCL)Troubled Memories: histories of the British slave trade and slavery Catherine Hall asks and answers a lot of questions about the construction and reconstruction of histories and memory of the British slave trade. ...
Two interesting journal articles recently caught my attention about the abolition of the slave trade. The first looks at how the anniversary was commemorated on British television, Rough Crossings and Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death: Documentary, Drama and...
This week on Reviews in History two new resources for historians of slavery are reviewed, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007. The latter date is of course significant in marking the 200th anniversary...
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