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Unit
Description
Bristol
played a major role in the transatlantic slave trade and many members of
the city’s community benefited from its proceeds.
The wealth which it generated is still evident in today’s city
and some would also argue in the institutions which were endowed on the
back of the trade. Yet Bristolians also came to be at the forefront of
moves to end the trade and played a central role in its eventual
abolition.
This unit looks at the origins of the slave trade and how
Bristol
’s merchants came to be involved. Students will examine trading voyages
and trace the impact this had on all those involved. The expansion of the
trade and the reasons for its decline will be explored, and the role of
those associated with
Bristol
in the eventual abolition of the trade will be considered.
Contact Hours and Mode of Teaching:
10
x 2 hour seminars
Methods
of Assessment:
1
x 3000 word essay (formative), 1 x 2 hour exam (100%)
Essential
Reading
Pip Jones, Satan’s Kingdom:
Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (
Bristol
, 2007).
Madge
Dresser, Slavery Obscured: The
Social History of the Slave Trade in an
English
Provincial
Port
(
London
, 2001).
P.E.H.
Hair, The Atlantic Slave Trade and
Black
Africa
(
Liverpool
, 1989).
Peter
Marshall, The Anti-Slave Trade
Movement in
Bristol
(
Bristol
, 1968).
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