Introduction: imagining transatlantic slavery and abolition

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Notes

¹David Richardson, 'The British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, 1660-1807', in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998), 441-2; J. R. Ward, 'The British West Indies in the age of revolution, 1748-1815', in Marshall (ed.), Oxford History of the British Empire, 429; James Walvin, Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora (London: Cassell 2000), 92-6; Madge Dresser, 'Squares of distinction, webs of interest: slavery, gentility and urban development in Bristol', Slavery and Abolition, vol. 21, 2000, 21-47.

²For recent work on British anti-slavery, see David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press 2006), esp. 231-49, and Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: The Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2006).

³See J. R. Oldfield, 'Chords of Freedom': Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2007), 1-2, 89-90, 98-100, 172-4.

⁴Alex van Stipriaan, 'July 1, emancipation day in Suriname: a contested lieu de memoire, 1863-2003', New West Indian Guide, vol. 78, 2004, 269-304 (270).

⁵Oldfield, 'Chords of Freedom', 121.

⁶Oldfield, 'Chords of Freedom', 122-7.

⁷See Alon Confino, 'Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method', American Historical Review, vol. 102, 1997, 1400.