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Black writing in Britain, 1770-1830 (2015)
Thesis
Hanley, R. (2015). Black writing in Britain, 1770-1830. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222291

This thesis examines the lives and works of six black authors whose writings were published in Britain between 1770 and 1830: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, Boston King, John Jea and Robert Wedderburn. It challenges the existin... Read More about Black writing in Britain, 1770-1830.

Slavery, memory and identity: national representations and global legacies (2014)
Book
Hamilton, D., Hodgson, K., & Quirk, J. (2014). D. Hamilton, K. Hodgson, & J. Quirk (Eds.), Slavery, memory and identity: national representations and global legacies. Pickering & Chatto

This is the first book to use national representations of slavery to present an international comparative perspective. The essays in this collection explore the complex relationship between slavery and national identity by assessing the role of museu... Read More about Slavery, memory and identity: national representations and global legacies.

Power and persuasion : the London West India Committee, 1783-1833 (2014)
Thesis
Osborne, A. G. (2014). Power and persuasion : the London West India Committee, 1783-1833. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221308

In 1783 the West India interest – absentee planters, merchants trading to the West Indies and colonial agents - organised into a formal lobbying group as a consequence of the government’s introduction of colonial and economic policies that were at od... Read More about Power and persuasion : the London West India Committee, 1783-1833.

The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity (2012)
Thesis
Wills, M. (2012). The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214103

This thesis examines the Royal Navy’s efforts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade between 1807 and the mid-1860s. The role of the West Africa squadron in detaining slave ships embarking from the West African coast was instrumental in the transf... Read More about The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity.

Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, D. J. (2012). Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire. In T. Devine, & J. Wormald (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0023

The revitalization of Scottish history in the 1960s reawakened scholarly interest in overseas connections that had lain more or less dormant since the 1930s. As a result, eighteenth-century Scots have appeared as Virginian tobacco merchants, Jamaican... Read More about Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire.

The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity (2010)
Thesis
Doulton, L. (2010). The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211170

This thesis explores the Royal Navy’s suppression of the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean between 1858 and the mid 1890s. Previous studies of this activity have offered narrative-style histories which have focused on operational matters and th... Read More about The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity.