Posts tagged with ‘slavery’
Historians Against Slavery Conference
In October 2017, Historians Against Slavery (HAS) will hold its biennial conference outside of the United States for the first time, at the International Slavery Museum (ISM) in Liverpool. The two-day conference will mark the 10th Anniversary of the ISM as well as Black History Month 2017. It is co-hosted by HAS, the ISM, the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (University of Liverpool) and the Antislavery Usable Past project (Universities of Nottingham and Hull).
Tags: Black History Month, conference, Historians Against Slavery, history, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, slavery, University of Liverpool
Making Nottingham the world’s first slavery-free city
There are 46 million people enslaved around the world today. The Modern Slavery Act of 2015 tackles the issue of thousands of people enslaved in the UK. Could UK cities now take steps to ensure they are slavery-free? Over the next two years, Nottingham will work to become the world’s first slavery-free city.
Tags: Being Human Festival, Centre for Conflict Rights and Justice, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, journey to justice nottingham, modern slavery act of 2015, Rights and Justice Research Priority Area, slavery, slavery-free city, the rights and justice city: hope history and being humane
The Slave’s Cause: A New History of Abolition
Please join the Department of American and Canadian Studies and the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for its distinguished annual lecture, delivered this year by Professor Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut, and a world-leading expert on the history of slavery and abolition.
Tags: abolition, Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, slavery
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners – with David Olusoga
Join David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and Katie Donington, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, as they discusses ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ following the BBC Two documentary broadcast earlier this year. Expect a look at the scale of the slave trade, and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their ‘loss of property’.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David Olusoga, Department of History, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Katie Donington, slavery
Enslaved wetnurses in the antebellum United States
The Department of American and Canadian Studies (ACS) present their Women’s History Month Lecture. Emily West, University of Reading, will be in conversation with Rachel Williams, PhD student (ACS), to discuss ‘Enslaved wetnurses in the antebellum United States’.
Tags: America, Emily West, Rachel Williams, slavery, United States, University of Reading, wetnursing, women, Women's History Month