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The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library and Archives would like to invite you to a one-day conference on Monday 15th October, 2007 from 1.00 - 5.30 to be held at the Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS. The conference is being held to mark the Archives Awareness Campaign and the launch of the ULRLS Archives catalogue: Freedom and Liberty? The Archival Record and Caribbean Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation. 1.00 Welcome and Introduction 1.15 - 2.15 Insights from the West Indian Committee collections Ian Barrett, Kings College London The West India Committee papers: an insight into the institutional defence of the slave trade Kent Hackmann, University of Idaho Pamphlets for Jamaican Plantation Owners in the Colonial Club (London) 2.30 - 3.30 Slave owners and the enslaved: Examining plantation records Christer Petley, University of Southampton 'Madness overrunning the whole world': A British-Jamaican slaveholder's responses to revolution and anti-slavery. David Clover, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Between abolition and emancipation: The Castle Wemyss estate and the lives of enslaved peoples. 3.30 - 4.00 Tea and Coffee Break 4.00 - 5.30 Revealing Caribbean histories: National and local sources Kristy Warren, formerly The National Archives/University of Warwick Post-Emancipation Re-Enslavement of Black British Subjects Daphne Knott, National Maritime Museum Studying issues of enslavement at the National Maritime Museum Dr Richard Maguire, Norfolk Record Office "The African trade is the trade of the nation, not of any particular place" Please contact David Clover At the address below by Friday 5th October to register for this free event. _____________________________________________ David Clover Information Resources Manager/Librarian Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London 28 Russell Square London WC1B 5DS 020 7862 8840 [log in to unmask] www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk <http://www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/>