Good idea but it would need to be the central MAL organisation so it was
shared to all MALs across the country.
Sean
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From: "Sarah Blackstock" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Archive Awareness 2007 Freedom and Liberty
Or maybe one of these Museums, Libraries or Archives services should
actually commission Marika to provide this information....
>From: Sean Creighton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Black and Asian Studies Association <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Archive Awareness 2007 Freedom and Liberty
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:50:41 -0000
>
>Marika,
>
>As I am finding in the MAL work I am doing in the North East that there is
>a mass of material to be listed, more material to be found, and lots of new
>lines of enquiry to follow just on the period up to 1838, let alone up to
>the end of the American Civil War.
>
>It would be very good if MALs could carry out the work you suggest, but
>there are limits to what can be done within existing projects, and may have
>to be considered for future projects.
>
>You are raising matters on which there is much less knowledge. It would
>therefore be very helpful if you would consider writing a briefing with
>the key facts you want people to know about, the reference sources for more
>detailed information, key individuals and organisations, and suggestions
>for lines of research, etc.
>
>If that could be provided then it might be possible for following-up some
>of it in existing projects setting the groundwork for further work in the
>future.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sean
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: Marika Sherwood
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Archive Awareness 2007 Freedom and Liberty
>
>
> Discussing the meaning of 'freedom' is interesting but I think not what
> Archives could engage in successfully.
>
> Archives are about the past. So let the Archives put on
> displays/conferences on the struggles for liberty during the eras of the
> slave-trade, slavery and colonialism. As well as the ongoing British
> participation in the 'nefarious' trade and slavery. After all, the final
> colonial Ordinance I've found outlawing slavery was passed in the Gold
> Coast in 1928. Slavery was made a crime in India, I believe in 1860. Then
> let the Archives look at the issue of forced and coerced labour in all the
> colonies until the end of the colonial era. And then perhaps at the racism
> introduced/practised by the colonial powers....
>
> Marika Sherwood
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