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Robert Wedderburn and the "Red and Black Atlantic": Radicalism, Insurrection, Anti-Slavery
2024 marks the bi-centenary of the publication of Robert Wedderburn’s unsparing antislavery memoir The Horrors of Slavery (1824). This conference uses the occasion to revisit Wedderburn as a crucial figure in transatlantic radicalism, insurrectionism, and abolitionism, exploring not only his works and their importance but the broader "Red and Black Atlantic" of which he was a part.
This includes the people, ideas and cultures that shaped Wedderburn's life and work through slavery and resistance; the influence of his mother Rosanna and maternal grandmother Talky Amy; theological and political liberation; the politics of abolition from below; gender, sexuality and resistance; and the connection between working class and anti-slavery cultures across the Atlantic world. Beyond the individual, we will also explore the resonances of such themes in the 200 years since publication.
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Keynote Speakers
- Professor Hakim Adi
- Professor Gary Younge
Registration
If you are not a speaker at the conference you can still register your interest to attend by emailing RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com
Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. We will let you know by email.
Call for Papers
We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations of any format, as well as traditional 20-minute papers and pre-formed panels of three. We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers and scholars working outside universities.
The organisers envisage that the papers delivered at this conference will form the basis for a special issue of a journal.
To propose a paper or panel, please send an abstract of around 250 words per presentation to RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com before midnight on 15 June 2024.
Possible themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
Wedderburn’s life, work, legacy, and contemporary relevance for modern radical and antiracist movements
- Wedderburn’s life, work, legacy, and contemporary relevance for modern radical and antiracist movements
- Rosanna, Talky Amy and genealogies of resistance
- Radical and resisting women
- The relationship between radicalism and antislavery in the Atlantic world
- Insurrectionary traditions in the Caribbean and British islands
- British working-class and labour cultures in colonial contexts
- Class, race, and gender dynamics of popular uprisings
- Complications and nuances of transatlantic resistance and solidarity between enslaved and labouring people
- The regional and global ramifications of the Haitian Revolution and other Caribbean wars for freedom, e.g. Tacky’s War
- Local intellectual milieux for Wedderburn e.g. Kingston, Edinburgh, London
- Visions for decolonisation and anticolonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Caribbean
Conference Venue - Verdant Works Museum, Dundee
Experience the fascinating tale of Dundee’s industrial heritage at Verdant Works Museum – the hidden gem of the City of Discovery.
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Location: West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BT
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Childcare
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Organising Committee
- Michael Morris, University of Dundee
- Lisa Williams, University of St Andrews
- May Sumbwanyambe, Northumbria University
- Ryan Hanley, University of Exeter
with support from Debbie Ree, Dundee City Region Convention Bureau
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