J. R. Oldfield

'Chords of freedom'

Commemoration, ritual and British transatlantic slavery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chords of Freedom offers valuable new insights into the ways in which Britons have been taught to remember transatlantic slavery, and how our views of figures like William Wilberforce have been revised to meet the changing demands of the 'present'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780719066658
• ISBN-10: 0719066654
• Artikelnr.: 22618752

Autorenporträt

J. R. Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction One Frames of
Remembrance: Benjamin Robert Haydon and The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840
Two Literary Memorials: Clarkson's History and The Life of William
Wilberforce Three Sites of Memory: Abolitionist Monuments and the Politics
of Identity Four Abolitionist Rituals: Celebrations and Commemorations Five
Sites of Memory: Transatlantic Slavery and the Museum Experience Six
Transatlantic Perspectives Conclusion Bibliography Index