All Outputs (2)

2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2012)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2012). 2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. In Ambiguous anniversary: the bicentennial of the international slave trade bans (192 - 207). University of South Carolina Press

Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery (2012)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. (2012). Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery. Social & legal studies, 21(2), 243 - 255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911435520

On both sides of the Atlantic, states have tended to react nervously to reparative claims for slavery, just as they have tended to be wary of making apologies of any kind. In the absence of more radical gestures, public history has taken on an added... Read More about Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery.