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ContentsIntroduction4Andrea Levy & Small Island 6Ignatius Sancho10William Wilberforce of Hull11The Transatlantic Slave Trade12Glasgow and Slavery16Darwin and Slavery17Jamaica Timeline18The Jamaican Maroons19The Windrush Generation 20Black Americans in Bristol24Settling In25The Black Community in Liverpool29Resources30Acknowledgements31 West Indians arriving at Southampton, 24 October 1952(Science and Society/NMPFT Daily Herald Archive).4/5Introduction The book that has been chosen for thisexciting initiative is Andrea Levy s SmallIsland, a widely acclaimed novel thatdescribes the arrival in post-war Britain ofblack Jamaican immigrants, the descendantsof enslaved Africans. Small Island Read 2007is linked to the 2007 commemorations of the200th anniversary of the passing of the SlaveTrade Abolition Bill a year that is beingused to explore the legacy of slavery and itscontinuing impact upon modern Levy s novel addresses the themes of identity, racial awareness, forgiveness,ignorance and survival with humour, highdrama, anger and pathos, making it anunforgettable read and one that is a fittingtopic for discussion in 2007.
Contents Introduction 4 Andrea Levy & Small Island 6 Ignatius Sancho 10 William Wilberforce of Hull 11 The Transatlantic Slave Trade 12 …
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