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The Glasgow International Exhibition von Sir John Lavery als Kunstdruck auf Malerleinwand, Aquarellpapier oder Poster. The exhibition is curated by students from Professor Simon Newman’s History Special Subject course ‘The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Plantation Slavery’. Slave suicides often made up over 80%
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‘The Glasgow Exhibition’ was created in 1888 by John Lavery in Impressionism style. with great severity and a slave could receive
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But enslaved people working on plantations in British colonies were not 'emancipated' until 1833. burden was only eased for women in the 8th and
An historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that commits UofG and The University of the West Indies to work together in the foundation of a Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research is being signed at an event held today. Anti-Slavery emblems
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. //-->. history in general and slavery in particular. For some commentators Scotland is yet to come to terms with this legacy given the lack of permanent exhibition space or a museum to acknowledge the role of slavery in the nation’s development. The first Scottish Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow attracted over five million visitors and led to the building of Kelvingrove Museum and … Whilst Liverpool's docks recorded 1,011 slave voyages, Glasgow records show 27. In the 1820s he became editor of the 'Glasgow Courier' [Shelfmark: GIVB.2/22(6)]. was especially high so its survival depended on
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More immediately, the Glasgow Life organisation will appoint a curator who will develop a strategy for the interpretation of slavery and empire in Glasgow Museums. Duty
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Poet Jackie Kay, the third Scottish Makar or poet laureate, will read a specially-commissioned poem and an exhibition looking at the University of Glasgow's links to the slave … This exhibition continued the conversation started in 2016 when the University of Glasgow acknowledged that despite the strong abolitionist stance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it continued to accept gifts and bequests from people who profited from slavery to further institutional goals. The International Slavery Museum said the exhibition - which is part of Exodus Cry's Traffickinghub campaign to shut down Pornhub - was meant to record "what abolitionist efforts can look like today". var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("? (x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i