University of York Public Lectures
Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Modern World

6 February 2007	Dr Henrice Altink Caring mothers, virtuous wives, and innocent victims: representations of slave women in the campaign to abolish the slave trade
13 February 2007	Professor Sue Mendus What's wrong with slavery?
20 February 2007	Professor David Murray (Nottingham) Legacies of Slavery and Resistance in African American Music
27 February 2007	Professor Marcus Wood (Sussex) Marketing Liberty: Abolition and the Horrible Gift of Freedom
6 March 2007	Dr Jane Webster (Newcastle) The archaeology of slave shipping (1600-1800)
13 March 2007	Professor David Attwell 'Wake! Amakosa, wake!: the poetry of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society

Tuesdays, 5.30pm
Venues tbc