doi: 10.1080/01440399608575190. Other. Most slaves were freed, with exceptions and delays provided for the East India Company, Ceylon, and Saint Helena. By Jules Koch on December 17, 2019 • ( 0) In August this year, Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery opened in the University of Glasgow Chapel. Slavery was abolished in the colonies by buying out the owners in 1833 by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. 18 guests. The study acknowledges that whilst it played a leading role in the abolitionist movement, the University also received significant financial support from people whose wealth at least in part derived from slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wed, Dec 4 at The Glasgow Art Club & Gallery. The University of Glasgow has responded to a report about its historical links with slavery by creating a joint research centre with the University of the West Indies.. Dr Peggy Brunache is lecturer in the history of Atlantic Slavery and director of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow and the lead contributor on the course from Glasgow along with Dr Christine Whyte. Category Training Call and Response centres… University of Glasgow recently published a comprehensive report into the institution’s historical links with racial slavery and as a part of its reparative action, plans to pay £200 million (approximately J$34 billion) to the University of the West Indies in value that was extracted from Jamaica and the Caribbean." The university said it deeply regretted this part of its past which clashed with its parallel history of support for the abolition of slavery, and started a programme of reparative justice. Glasgow’s civic collecting of Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style. The staff at the Mitchell Library Special Collections department, inpa rticular, deserves special notice. January 20, 2021. Wednesday 9th October 2019 In August this year, Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery opened in the University of Glasgow Chapel. The exhibition seeks to explore the unknown or unexpected ways collections can be related to racial slavery, and continues the conversation by widening the range of responses to these historic legacies. The past is still the present. Sam Lee live at Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (Celtic Connections) Wed Jan 29, 2020 at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Morgan, J. L. (1997) ‘“Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder”: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770’, The William and Mary Quarterly , 54(1). Without slavery, Glasgow wouldn't exist. Slavery elsewhere in the British Empire was not affected—indeed it grew rapidly especially in the Caribbean colonies. Ms Njenga said: "Glasgow used to be 13 streets but because of the wealth of the slave traders it expanded. In 2016, the University of Glasgow acknowledged that despite the strong abolitionist stance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it continued to accept gifts and bequests from people who profited from slavery to further institutional goals. One of the founders of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society was Dr Ralph Wardlaw (1779-1853), a Congregationalist Minister who had matriculated at Glasgow University at the age of eleven. Log in | Register Cart. The MoU was one of a series of recommendations that emerged from a report, 'Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow', conducted by the University of Glasgow in 2018 examining its links with historical slavery. Dr Stephen Mullen, co-author of the report, “Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow”, said the city of Glasgow in the 18th Century contained major tobacco lords and the sugar aristocracy, many of whom were university alumni. Stiff Little Fingers Glasgow. Dr Brunache said: “The past is not over. 271 guests. About FutureLearn. Tue Mar 17, 2020 at Glasgow, United Kingdom. University of Glasgow. In September 2018, the University published a report titled "Slavery, Abolition and The University of Glasgow" in its efforts towards a "programme of reparatory justice". I wish to thank the University of Glasgow Arts Faculty and College of Humanities for funding my doctorate, as well as the Carnegie Trust and Royal History Society for their generous grants. Dr Christine Whyte is a Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in the history of slavery and abolition in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The University of Aberdeen has recently called for research into the slavery origins of its wealth along the lines of Glasgow. It outlines significant gifts received by the University from people that derived wealth from slavery , which includes an acknowledgement of the value and intellectual capital of the instruments donated by Alexander Macfarlane. Midgley, C. (1996) ‘Slave sugar boycotts, female activism and the domestic base of British anti‐slavery culture’, Slavery & Abolition, 17(3), pp. ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’ Dr Stephen Mullen and Marenka Thompson-Odlum, University of Glasgow. A daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage Glasgow University academics today urged students enrolling for a new course about slavery to check their family history for links to the slave trade.. Etching depicting slave auction of native Africans to American plantation owners . Glasgow said it deeply regretted this part of its past which clashed with its parallel history of support for the abolition of slavery, and had started a program of reparative justice. The University of Glasgow has published a comprehensive report into the institution’s historical links with racial slavery. As part of the work of GCCDR both universities will be jointly offering a Master of Arts Programme in Reparatory Justice. This study reinterprets the history of the Glasgow Emancipation Society and its relationship to the American anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century. Read the latest issue and learn how to publish your work in Slavery & Abolition. Report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee. 16.09.2018 - The University of Glasgow has published a comprehensive report into the institution's historical links with racial slavery. The financial success of the Kilmarnock edition is sometimes cited by commentators as the reason why Burns did not go to Jamaica; but this is a simplistic take. It followed a report, Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow, published by the institution in 2018, acknowledging gifts and bequests from those who may have benefited from the trade. She is currently a British Academy / Wolfson Fellow working on a project about children emancipated from slavery in the 19th century. Glasgow's Abolition Movement. He said the university benefited greatly from gifts and bequests from people associated with slave economies in Jamaica and the Caribbean. 137–162. The study acknowledges that whilst it played a leading role in the abolitionist movement, the University also received significant financial support from people whose wealth at least in part derived from slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. The past is still the present. The linen mills around the North East of Scotland exported “slave cloth” to the Americas. Dr Brunache said: “The past is not over. Call and Response: The University Of Glasgow and Slavery. Local societies became the focus of anti-slavery agitation, organising petitions, printing pamphlets and holding meetings, with the aim of mobilising public opinion, as in the 1792 campaign. It examines the role of economics, religion and reform, from Colonial times up to the US Civil War, in order to determine its influence on abolition locally and nationally. The University of Glasgow and The University of the West Indies (UWI) are partnering to deliver the online course that will take people on a 350-year journey from West Africa and the Caribbean through to the Windrush Generation and present day. Call and Response: The University of Glasgow & Slavery is part of the university’s pro-active programme of reparative justice after a year-long study found that it had derived ‘financial’ support donated from profits made in the slave trade. Mullen, S. and Newman, S. (2018) Slavery, abolition and the University of Glasgow. The University of Glasgow launches a ‘reparative justice programme’ after a study revealed it benefited by tens of millions of pounds from slavery. Loading content, please wait. 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