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The Slave Trade in Bristol
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This topic may seem like shameless self-promoting and in a way it is, but Im posting it as I thought the topic may interest some people as it is currently relevant due to the 200th anniversary of the slave trade.
Basically, I have just graduated from university after completing a degree in history. My dissertation topic was about the Bristol slave trade between 1720-1750, a time when it was at its peak. It discusses whether the impact of the trade upon the city was as large as is generally believed due to media hype. Therefore, for anyone interested in eighteenth century Bristol, or the impact which the slave trade could have upon a community, then this might be a good read. The mark I got for it was a First class so it must be fairly decent!
Anyways, if anybody is interested in reading it, you can download it as a pdf file from http://www.lulu.com/content/725513 or buy it in paperback. You can also buy it in hardback from http://www.lulu.com/content/733127.
I dont make any money from any sales as the book company do, but i am just posting in case anybody might be interested in reading it!
If anybody has any questions to ask me about the slave trade, I will also try and answer them!
Thanks
Basically, I have just graduated from university after completing a degree in history. My dissertation topic was about the Bristol slave trade between 1720-1750, a time when it was at its peak. It discusses whether the impact of the trade upon the city was as large as is generally believed due to media hype. Therefore, for anyone interested in eighteenth century Bristol, or the impact which the slave trade could have upon a community, then this might be a good read. The mark I got for it was a First class so it must be fairly decent!
Anyways, if anybody is interested in reading it, you can download it as a pdf file from http://www.lulu.com/content/725513 or buy it in paperback. You can also buy it in hardback from http://www.lulu.com/content/733127.
I dont make any money from any sales as the book company do, but i am just posting in case anybody might be interested in reading it!
If anybody has any questions to ask me about the slave trade, I will also try and answer them!
Thanks
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Form an orderly Queue peeps
Good luck with it though :thumb:
Do they?
Which Uni out of interest?
Yeah. There has been LOADS of stuff in Bristol this spring about the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and I was getting a little bored of it.
What he said. They just went on and on and on. Total overkill.
Yet again, I must have been living in my little bubble!
Anyway yes i am sick of hearing about it too and the fact the new complex in town can't be called merchants quarters because of the slave trade i think is a little ridiculous!
Ah Ok... My ignorance must come from not owning a TV.
Conclusive proof TV is educational?
Nor do I (but I have been living in Brizzle)
Even some of the place names in Bristol are evocative of the ST - Whiteladies Road (where the white ladies went to buy their slaves) at the top of which is... Black Boy Hill (no kidding). Plus Bristol Uni is founded on money from tabacco.