British Universities and Transatlantic Slavery: The University of Glasgow Case

IF 16.4 1区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Stephen Mullen
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Abstract

On 16 September 2018, the University of Glasgow released the report ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’. This acknowledged that slave-owners, merchants and planters with connections to New World slavery – and their descendants – donated capital between 1697 and 1937 that influenced the development of the institution. In producing this report, the institution became the first British university to declare historical income derived from transatlantic slavery. In response, a nine-point programme reported as reparative justice was launched, the first British university to launch a project on such a scale. This article traces both the methodological approach undertaken in the study and the historical evidence related to the University of Glasgow. This provides insights into the process of collecting and analysing the evidence on which the report and strategy was based. Current understandings about British universities and transatlantic slavery are shaped by the institutional relationship with owners of enslaved people. This article underlines the importance of merchant capital – in this case, mainly via West India commerce – to the development of one institution.
英国大学与跨大西洋奴隶制:格拉斯哥大学案例
2018年9月16日,格拉斯哥大学发布了《奴隶制、废除奴隶制和格拉斯哥大学》报告。这承认,与新世界奴隶制有联系的奴隶主、商人和种植园主及其后代在1697年至1937年间捐赠了影响该机构发展的资本。在编写这份报告时,该机构成为第一所申报跨大西洋奴隶制历史收入的英国大学。作为回应,启动了一个被报道为补救性司法的九点计划,这是第一所启动如此规模项目的英国大学。本文追溯了研究中采用的方法论方法和与格拉斯哥大学有关的历史证据。这为收集和分析报告和战略所依据的证据的过程提供了见解。目前对英国大学和跨大西洋奴隶制的理解是由与被奴役者的制度关系决定的。这篇文章强调了商业资本——在这种情况下,主要通过西印度商业——对一个机构发展的重要性。
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Accounts of Chemical Research
Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合
CiteScore
31.40
自引率
1.10%
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312
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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