... avoided the word slaves or slavery, employing euphemisms, just as the Nazi running Hitler's extermination campaign never referred to death camps, using the phrase going ea t. Anxious to hide the ugly facts of slavery, tlley would have been the first ...

... ogging, and Hull Council, seem unaware that virtually all authenti c illustrative material about slavery and the slave-trade was produced by the anti-slavery lobby. Prints offlo~gings and diagrams of slave ships showing the appalling overcrowding and lack ...

... scrupulous deeply The 'A Respectable Trade? the Bristol City powerful and moving exhibition, and Transatlantic Slavery', which runs September I. slavery has been called Britain's Museum & Art Gallery until 1 Bth-century prosperity, still from this inhuman business ...

... Indeed, two entirely different examples demonstrate the beneficial role of charity: slavery would not have been abolished without the activities of members of the Anti-Slavery Society, and the establishment of rural community councils and village halls would ...

... selection of watercolour and printed envelopes advertising theatrical shows or products, including one which promotes anti-slavery. (Clockwise from top) 1912; 1884; Henry Edwards (1859-1918), who rates so little notice in the reference books that this sale ...

... birth to a mulatto child by one of her father 's workers: officially pronounced dead, the child is quickly sold off into slavery. But the main action takes place in 1840, when we witness the arrival at the estate, now run by the arrogant Amalia, of an ...

... notable example of this is to be found in the J efferson Memozial in Washington, where the inscription dealing with freedom and slavery i not the continuous piece of prose it appears to be, but an amalgam of sentences drawn from different sources to create a ...

... Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray, £19.99) THI book i untouched by the grey modern fa hion that ees the abolition of Briti h slavery as a largely automatic function of economic change -the long-term need to reduce ugar production, and o on. It is humanely ...

... still the most conservative state in Ausralia, and not long ago, transportation was a subject as ricky for Tasmanians as slavery still is for Southerners in TRAVEL DE LUXE U'here is travel heading these days? Ihe answer to that question was provided last ...

... Representing the U n representable Prof David Bindman (U niversity College, London) Censoring the Past: British Art and Slavery in the 18th Century Prof Elizabeth Childs (Washington University, St Louis) Laughing Matters: Censorship and Political Caricature ...

... killing of elephants fo r tusks today, I love well-carved old ivories. I am willing to be intrigued by relics of cock-fights or slavery. I would not drink turtle soup, but I would not let political correctness lessen my liking for tortoiseshell, nor my admiration ...

... transport or fishing. Boating could, of course, be enjoyed for its meditative qualities. While preparing his campaign against slavery, Bishop Wilberforce lived at Rayrigg Hall on Lake Windermere. Every day, he would row across from one of the oldest surviving ...