Dear Arthur,
This is a very good point. I hope this sort of topic might come out in discussion during the conference, if not in any of the papers. It is certainly an under-researched subject. We have discussed how we might take the research agenda forward after the conference, and this one avenue that we could pursue. I’m certain there would be lots of our sites with strong connections to British India though I don’t believe any detailed research has been done in this area as yet.
Best wishes,
Andrew
Dr Andrew Hann
Senior Properties Historian
1 Waterhouse Square
138-142 Holborn
London EC1N 2ST
Tel: 020 79733560
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The next piece of research and conference for
EH would be to find out which British castles, mansions, etc were built from
the wealth earned by those who invested and had businesses in British India,
where Indian slaves and those of low caste often worked to death to make
millions for the rich there and the investors Britain. We seldom hear of the
names of such rich people, whereas we hear of the Beckfords, et al.
Compared with the proportionately small number of Africans who were forcibly
taken to India mainly by the Arabs, the local Indian slaves numbered over 10
million.
Arthur
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Dear Marika,
I attach below a full list of the speakers and their paper titles. I hope the conference will provide a forum to discuss the whole range of linkages between slavery and the British country house including the income estates acquired from slave-generated wealth in all its forms, the slavery-related aesthetics in the design of country houses and their grounds, involvement in abolition debates on either side of the argument, and the continued impact of slavery on the country house after abolition.
Best wishes,
Andrew
1. Professor James Walvin (Professor (Emeritus) of History, University of York) 'Slavery and the Slave Trade: the view from Yorkshire, Harewood House and After'.
2. Professor Simon D. Smith, (Professor of Modern History and Diaspora Studies University of Hull), 'St. Vincent's topographical heritage and its links with British country house owners', (2 nights)
3. Dr. Jane Longmore (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Southampton Solent University) 'Rural Retreats: Liverpool merchants and the British Country House',
4.Dr. Nuala Zahedieh,(Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh) 'Normanton Hall: the country life of Gilbert Heathcote, merchant and slaver of empire,' Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology,
5 Professor Roger Leech (Visiting Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton), 'Bristol and Nevis: changing places'
6.Dr. Nick Draper (Senior Lecturer, UCL) 'Measuring the extent of rentier slave-ownership in Britain: the Slave Compensation records as evidence',
7. Dr. Caroline Bressey (UCL) 'Rural heritage and the rise of the right: contesting the political legacy of slavery in Britain's country houses'
8. Dr. Natalie Zacek ((Lecturer in History , Manchester) 'Illuminating and Obscuring Slavery at the Codrington Sites in England and the West Indies,', (2 nights)
9. Cliff Pereira (Independent Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society) 'The London Borough of Bexley's Stately homes and their hidden historical links to the East and West Indies'
10.Victoria Perry (who will have completed her doctorate at the Bartlett School of Architecture by the end of 2008) 'Slavery, Sugar and the Sublime: the Atlantic trade and the eighteenth century fashion for landscape tourism',
11. Susanne Seymour & Sheryllynne Haggerty (University of Nottingham) ‘Property - attitudes to slaves, land and trade’
12. Laurence Brown (Manchester University) ‘Atlantic slavery and classical culture at Marble Hill and Northington Grange’ -
13. Madge Dresser (UWE) ‘Slavery and Country Houses in the West of England’
Dr Andrew Hann
Senior Properties Historian
1 Waterhouse Square
138-142 Holborn
London EC1N 2ST
Tel: 020 79733560
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It is a relief to hear that the source of wealth of the ‘great houses’ will be addressed at this conference. I trust that involvement in the trade in enslaved Africans and in slavery will be interpreted broadly. British traders, manufacturers, bankers, shipbuilders, insurers, et al continued their involvement in both after the passing of the 1807 and 1833 Acts. Slavery was not abolished in the Americas till the 1880s and in Africa till the 1920s; I am not sure when a meaningful Act was passed in India, which was specifically excluded from the 1833 Act; one book alleges there were c. 86 million enslaved there.
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Dear Marika,
Yes, the conference aims to address just this issue. English Heritage has also commissioned two researchers to conduct in-depth studies into the slavery connections of four of our properties: Bolsover Castle, Brodsworth Hall, Northington Grange and Marble Hill House. The finding of this research will be presented at the conference in November.
Best wishes,
Andrew
Dr Andrew Hann
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020 7973 3560
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Dear Andrew Hann,
Is there any undertaking by English Heritage and the National Trust to research the source of the wealth of the ‘great houses’ and the treatment of the servants, Black and White?
Marika Sherwood
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