The slave trade, abolition and public memory

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 19, Issue , 2009, Pages 139-149

  Walvin, James ^a  

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EID: 77952726056     PISSN: 00804401     EISSN: 14740648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0080440109990077     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Times, 25 Mar. 1907
2. The Anti-Slavery Reporter, fourth series, 27 (1907), 'Annual Report', 1907, 2-12
3. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Tuesday 20 Mar. 2007, vol. 458, no. 64, cols. 687-780
4. www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition
5. Figures provided by the curators, Melanie Unwin (parliament) and Clare Weston (Birmingham). For parliament see also http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/ slavetrade
6. See Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, ed. David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles (Liverpool, 2008)
7. For the broad history of slavery, see David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage (New York, 2006)
8. Howard Temperley, After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontent (2000)
9. For these and all other details, see the TransAtlantic Slave Trade Data Base, www.slavevoyages.org
10. William Pettigrew, 'Parliament and the Escalation of the Slave Trade, 1690-1714', in The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People, ed. Stephen Farrell, Melanie Unwin and James Walvin, Edinburgh University Press for Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust (Edinburgh, 2007)
11. James Walvin, Fruits of Empire. Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800 (1997), ch. 8
12. S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic. The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Cambridge, 2006)
13. The BBC played an active role, through their local/regional stations in encouraging scrutiny of local slavery connections. See e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/ norfolk/abolition; www.bbc.co.uk/Isle of Man; bbc.co.uk/somerset/abolition
14. For a list of the major events, see Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807-2007 (HM Government, 2007), 14-15
15. Service to Commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Tuesday 27 Mar. 2007
16. The major abolition events for the year can be found in Calendar of Events, 2007, Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, published by the Dept for Communities and Local Government, 2007
17. Among the many pamphlets published by local authorities see Kirklees Council, The Abolition of the Slave Trade, 2007, City of Westminster
18. Abolition of the Slave Trade Events to Mark the Bicentenary of the 1807 Act of Parliament, 2007
19. Connecting Histories, Birmingham City Council, 2007
20. For a very good example, see John Charlton, Hidden Chains. The Slavery Business and North East England, 1600-1865 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008)
21. My own book, A Short History of Slavery (2007), delivered to the publishers in 2005, was 'parked' for a year by Penguin in order to hit the abolitionist market in 2007
22. 'A Message from the Prime Minister', Calendar of Events
23. Reaching Out. An Action Plan on Social Inclusion, Cabinet Office, Sept. 2006
24. In God's Name. The Role of the Church in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, City Hall, Aug. 2007
25. Seymour Drescher, Capitalism and Antislavery (Pittsburgh, 1986)
26. Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and the British Empire (Oxford, 2007)
27. For the origins of abolition see Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital (Chapel Hill, 2006)
28. This is the subject of my forthcoming book, The Zong. One Ship in the Age of Slavery (2010)
29. Ellen Gibson Wilson, Thomas Clarkson. A Biography (1989)