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Gillespie, Cait (2017)

The end of amnesia? Scotland's response to the 2007 bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade and the quest for social justice

Master thesis | History (MA)

This dissertation considers Scotland's response to the 2007 bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, in the context of memory and museum studies. It considers to what degree Scotland's response was aligned to an agenda of social justice - and how Scotland is slowly 'waking up' to its slavery past during a time of revived Scottish nationalism.

slavery

memory

museum

scotland

commemoration

abolition

justice

Author

Gillespie, Cait

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence

Supervisors

Glynn, I.A.

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en