Description
Book SynopsisChords 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 ContentsCONTENTS
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
