Since 2016, Huron students in History and English and Cultural Studies have participated in the exciting transatlantic research project that has taken us to archives and sites of memory across the UK.
Phantoms of the Past: Enslavement and Resistance, History and Memory in the Atlantic World places undergraduate researchers, faculty, and community scholars at the center of a transatlantic research network that examines 18th and 19th-century enslavement and antislavery resistance through histories, texts, images, and cultural memory.
Our research questions:
How are interconnected histories of transatlantic slavery and antislavery remembered, forgotten, commemorated, and ignored? What are empire’s sites of memory, and how does the meaning of memory shift over time? How can our research on history, and “sites of memory” shape our understanding of race, identity and freedom in contemporary Canada and Britain?
Phantoms of the Past has been supported by the W. Galen Weston Fund for British History at Huron; the Huron Community History Centre; the Huron Pilot Research Fund; the RBC Fund for Community-based Learning; the Trish Fulton Community-Based Learning Fund at Huron; Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA); Bath Spa University; the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and Professor Olivette Otele, (SOAS)
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