Britain and the Legacies of Slavery (11 Jun 2013)
UCL Minds
English - June 21, 2013 10:48 - 42 minutes - 77.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Catherine Hall, UCL History
Once abolition was secured, Britons were keen to overlook slavery and emphasise the memory of emancipation. But Britain and Britons benefited in multiple ways from slavery. By focusing on the role of the many slave-owners who lived here, should British history be reconsidered to take slavery into full account?
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