Introduction

Donington, Katie; Hanley, Ryan and Moody, Jessica (2016). Introduction. In: Donington, Katie; Hanley, Ryan and Moody, Jessica eds. Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’. Studies in International Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 15–32.

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Abstract

The Introduction to this volume (Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery) sets out the current context of scholarship on the history of Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and the slave trade and its abolition, and work around the memory of this history. This chapter considers what is ultimately at stake through configuring, reconfiguring and contesting the place of slavery and the slave trade in British national identity narratives, how this has changed in the last thirty years and why examining such relationships through a ‘local’ lens is important for interrogating the relationship between history, memory and identity. The Introduction sets out the structure of the book in its two parts and gives brief overviews of the following chapters.

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