Learning Hub
Below you will find a curated collection of books, resources, organisations and videos to help you dive deeper into the history of chattel enslavement and its legacies.
Click here to view a collection of resources for the Caribbean.
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- A Short History of Slavery, James Walvin
- Bess: Now That I Have Found the Words, Rose Thomas
- Black and British: A Forgotten History, David Olusoga
- Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery, Alex Renton
- Britain’s Black Past, Gretchen H. Gerzina (ed)
- Equiano, The Slave with the Loud Voice, Robert Hume
- The Legacy of Slavery in Britain, Nigel Sadler
- White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution, Christer Petley
- Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition, Sarah Thomas
- The National Archives – A comprehensive online exhibition that looks at the impact of the Black and Asian presence in Britain between 1500-1850. There is also a slavery section with research guides, digitised documents and teaching resources.
- Understanding Slavery website – Teaching resources based on a number of museum collections relating to African history and the slave trade.
- UCL Database – The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery’s research into British links to enslavement.
- Lost Kingdoms of Africa – Narrated by Gus Casley-Hayford, this miniseries explores Africa’s pre-colonial history.
- The Empire Pays Back – Robert Beckford presents this documentary on the Transatlantic slave trade and the debt Britain owes.
- Windrush – A four-part documentary series tracing the generation of Caribbean people who arrived to Britain on the Empire Windrush ship.
- Windrush Caribbean Film Festival – Seeks to engage and educate audiences across the UK about the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.
- Windrush and Us: The descendants of the generation who changed Britain – Documentary exploring the experience of the younger generation of descendants and what their future holds.
- Exterminate all the Brutes – Written and directed by Raoul Peck, this documentary mini-series explores colonisation, genocide, chattel slavery and white supremacy.
- Frederick Douglass and the White Negro – A film, written and directed by John J. Doherty, tells the story of formerly enslaved abolitionist, writer, and politician Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland from America in the 1840s.
European Organisations
- Afrikan Reparations APPG – The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations.
- Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research (GCCDR)
- International Slavery Museum – A museum based in Liverpool, UK dedicated to transatlantic trafficking, chattel slavery and other forms of enslavement.
- Runnymeade Trust – A think tank using evidence-based research to tackle racial inequality.
- The Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and its Legacies – Centre to advance understandings about indentureship and its global impacts through publishing, scholarships, professorships and conferences.
- The Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery – Based in University College London, the Centre aims to broaden public knowledge and deepen discussions in Britain and the Caribbean through research and reparative history work.
- The Voice – The only British national black newspaper operating in the UK aimed at the British African-Caribbean community.
- The World Reimagined – An art education project to transform how the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact is understood.
- Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies – Centre and national hub for teaching and researching the Caribbean and the diaspora.
