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