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