Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
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- LITFEST
VENUE: The Round, The Dukes
In conversation with Alan Rice
‘This important book brings to the fore the ways in which local study can speak to complex world events’
Dr Rhiannnon Grant, Deputy Programme Leader at Woodbrooke College
The narrative of British Quakers being abolitionists masks the truth that some were heavily involved in all aspects of the enslaving industry and that despite Quakers centrally opposing enslaving those Quakers were not formally challenged or disowned.
This book demonstrates how Lancaster Quaker Merchants fitted the social, political and moral attitudes of 17th and 18th century Britain towards the enslavement of Africans.
‘The definitive resource for understanding how Quakers so much known for abolition elsewhere had a very different and shameful legacy in Lancaster’
Professor Alan Rice, University of Lancashire
Author:
Ann Morgan represents British Quakers on the European Ecumenical Round Table on the Legacies of Slavery, Colonialism and Racism. She Co-Clerks the Quakers in Britain Reparations Working Group and is an Associate Tutor and Elder at Woodbrooke College.
Professor Alan Rice is Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Lancashire.
AGE GUIDANCE 16+
