{"id":2750,"date":"2016-08-30T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","slug":"international-day-to-remember-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/08\/30\/international-day-to-remember-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day to remember slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23<sup>rd<\/sup> August was the designated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/events\/prizes-and-celebrations\/celebrations\/international-days\/slave-trade-and-its-abolition\/\">International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0An official website via UNESCO provides free access to a wealth of UN documents and projects relating to the trade itself, its nature, impact and history worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information on the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/lbs\/project\/\">The legacies of British slave ownership project led by UCL<\/a> has a database of slave owners with details of the compensation they received after the abolition of slavery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/slavetrade\">The UK parliament<\/a> has a website with details of parliamentary campaigns to abolish slavery. \u00a0It includes teaching materials, timelines and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/living-heritage\/transformingsociety\/tradeindustry\/slavetrade\/from-the-parliamentary-collections\/the-british-slave-trade\/\">original petitions<\/a> and other primary source documents.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/slavery\/\">National Archives<\/a> has a large educational site with history, teaching materials and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/slavery\/research-guides.htm\">research\u00a0 guides<\/a> highlighting relevant archives.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0 group of museums and archives have worked together to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingslavery.com\/\">Understanding Slavery<\/a>, a project focused on supporting teaching about slavery issues.\u00a0 It includes timelines and thematic guides. There is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingslavery.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=142&amp;Itemid=289\">online gallery of images of artefacts from the museums<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anti-Slavery International has also digitised its collection of 18th and 19th century literature on the transatlantic slave trade which you can access on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoveredhistories.org\/\">Recovered Histories<\/a>.\u00a0 These include pamphlets, posters and campaign materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23rd August was the designated International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.\u00a0\u00a0An official website via UNESCO provides free access to a wealth of UN documents and projects relating to the trade itself, its nature, impact and history worldwide. For information on the UK The legacies of British slave ownership project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}