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UCL Glasgow Workshop, Kelvingrove Museum, September 4th 2010TRANSCRIPT
Legacies of British Slave-ownership
A one-day workshop at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Saturday 4th September 2010
This workshop examines the dispersal of compensation money
paid to slave-owners following the abolition of slavery in 1833
and explores the ways in which the money was used by beneficiaries in Scotland as it shaped economic, social,
cultural and political life over the next fifty years.
Speakers include:
Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Nick Draper (UCL)
on the legacies of Scottish slave-ownership
Eric Graham (University of Edinburgh)
on Scots and slave-ownership before 1834
Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow)
on the Glasgow West India Association
Eric Graham and Stephen Mullen
on the Afro-Caribbean presence in C19th
Scotland
To book a place or for further information
please see www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/workshops
or contact [email protected]