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

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color Series Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 11 Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 11. Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 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; 2: 'There to sing the song of Moses': John Jea's Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801-1817; 3: Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of Liverpool; 4: Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave Ownership 5: East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c.1757-1857Part II: Little Britain's Memory of Slavery; 6: Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-Remembering; 7: Liverpool's Local Tints: Drowning Memory and 'Maritimising' Slavery in a Seaport City; 8: Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in Hackney; 9: Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow; 10: Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Olney; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates 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 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.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index Notes Print version record Subject Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- Public opinion HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Slave trade Slave trade -- Public opinion Sklavenhandel Öffentliche Meinung Erinnerung Society. Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Donington, Katie Hanley, Ryan Moody, Jessica LC no. 2017303489 ISBN 9781781383551 1781383553

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