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ContentsIntroduction4 Andrea Levy & Small Island 6 Ignatius Sancho10 William Wilberforce of Hull11 The Transatlantic Slave Trade12 Glasgow and Slavery16 Darwin and Slavery17 Jamaica Timeline18 The Jamaican Maroons19 The Windrush Generation 20 Black Americans in Bristol24 Settling In25 The Black Community in Liverpool29 Resources30 Acknowledgements31 West Indians arriving at Southampton, 24 October 1952(Science and Society/NMPFT Daily Herald Archive).4/5 Introduction 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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