Antislavery Opinion Building
(2020)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2020). Antislavery Opinion Building. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (160-76). Nottingham: University of Nottingham Rights Lab
All Outputs (7)
Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989
After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire (2013)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2013). After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901 : The Sea and Global History (43-63). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_3In the 26 years between 1807 and 1833, Britain not only put an end to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but also abolished slavery in the British Caribbean. These momentous events figure largely in the nation’s imagination and, indeed... Read More about After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire.
2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2012)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2012). 2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Ambiguous anniversary: the bicentennial of the international slave trade bans (192 - 207). University of South Carolina Press
(Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer (2010)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2010). (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer. In C. Kaplan, & J. Oldfield (Eds.), Imagining Transatlantic Slavery (33-46). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277106_3In recent years we have become accustomed to thinking of abolition, and specifically the campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, as a grass roots movement. Narrating the history of the early abolitionist movement from below is problematic, ho... Read More about (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer.
Britain and the Slave Trade (2002)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2002). Britain and the Slave Trade. In H. Dickinson (Ed.), A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain (489-498). Oxford: Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998885.ch38
Slavery, abolition and empire
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. R. Slavery, abolition and empire. In F. Rosen (Ed.), . The University of Hull