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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'. -- .

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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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719066658, 978-0719066658
      ISBN10: 0719066654

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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'. -- .

      Table of Contents

      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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