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HIST7350: Remembering Slavery
Dr Nicholas Draper
This course examines how Britain’s involvement in colonial slavery has been conceptualised and remembered in both academic and public contexts. It will explore the ways in which contemporaries construed Britain’s involvement, trace the subsequent major historiographical debates as to how and why British colonial slavery was brought to an end, analyse how pervasive or otherwise were the effects of the slave-economy for metropolitan Britain, focusing on London and on the other major port-cities, and reflect on how the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery was commemorated in 2007.
Weekly Topics:
1. Introduction: the context of British colonial slavery
2. The ‘bourgeois humanitarian’ tradition of remembering slavery and abolition
3. The materialist challenge to the humanitarian tradition
4. British slave-ownership c. 1750-1834
5. Slavery, abolition and British politics
6. Emancipation and compensation in context
7. Slavery and London
8. Slavery and the out-ports
9. Reconciling the two views of Britain, slavery and abolition
10. Remembering slavery in Britain
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