This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals a

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth c

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwoo