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.
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David Clover
Information Resources Manager/Librarian
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
University of London
28 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DS
020 7862 8840