Special Events at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Thursdays 15 March - 10 May 2007
11.00 - 13.00

This series of lectures commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire. It aims to provide a historical narrative, contextualizing Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Leading academics, historians and curators consider West African culture and history, resistance and rebellion by those enslaved, the emergence of the public campaign to abolish the slave trade, abolition culture and the experience of African women.

15 March - Transatlantic Slavery: Between History and Memory
Dr Anita Rupprecht, Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Brighton

22 March - Perspectives on the History of West Africa South of the Sahara Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Dr Hakim Adi, Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora, Middlesex University

29 March - Cape Coast Castle, Ghana and the British Slave Trade
William St Clair, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge

5 April - Slavery, the Slave Trade and the Rise of Britain
Dr James Walvin, Emeritus Professor of History, University of York

12 April - From Runaways to Revolts: Slave Resistance in the Americas
Dr Gad Heuman, Professor of History and has served as Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick

19th April - Slavery, Abolition and Empire
Dr John Oldfield, Senior Lecturer in History, Southampton University

26 April - Cultures of Abolitionism
Dr Brycchan Carey, Reader in English Literature, Kingston University

3 May - Lost Daughters of Afrik: African Women and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Dr Barbara Bush, Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam University

10 May - Olaudah Equiano: Survivor and Achiever
Arthur Torrington, Historian and Co-founder of the Equiano Society