Lecture: Professor Lawrence Goldman (Aldeburgh & District Local History Society)

Wednesday 20th November 2024 at 6.00pm

Doors open at 5.30pm

Tickets: £4

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This lecture will examine the history of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition in Britain. It will explain the origins and causes of anti-slavery at the end of the eighteenth century and consider the individuals and groups who led it in Britain. We shall examine both the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the emancipation of slaves in the British empire in 1833. Why did Britain come first in the history of anti-slavery? Why was the movement ultimately successful? But why did it take so long?

Professor Lawrence Goldman taught the history of American slavery and emancipation in Oxford for three decades where he specialised in Modern British and American History.  He is the former director the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

The event ends at approximately 7.15pm.