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Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP)

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Transatlantic slavery, similar to the abolition movements, affected each and every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Lately, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered around the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did within the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this ‘national sin’ by taking a look as regards to home, drawing on local histories and myths to barter 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 within the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focal point 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 affect, people and places across Britain.

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