Chords of Freedom: Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery
By J. R. Oldfield.
Description
How should Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? Chords of Freedom sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed into the nation's collective memory. It offers valuable new insights into the way in which a "culture of abolition" took root in Britain, and how views of transatlantic slavery and figures like William Wilberforce have been revised and amended to reflect the changing demands of a series of "present days". Its cross-disciplinary app...
ISBN(s)
0719066654, 9780719066658