{"id":11149,"date":"2020-06-04T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=pamphlets&#038;p=11149"},"modified":"2024-09-23T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:29:22","slug":"from-wulfstan-to-colston","status":"publish","type":"pamphlets","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/from-wulfstan-to-colston\/","title":{"rendered":"From Wulfstan to Colston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing a thousand-year history, Mark Steeds and Roger Ball examine the involvement in slavery of Bristol\u2019s merchants, from Anglo-Saxon times through the era of exploration and colonisation, to the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the Americas. During this period, Bristol\u2019s merchant elite seized economic and political power, making slave-trader Edward Colston an icon and shaping the city\u2019s present-day historical memory of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the millennium, determined opposition to slavery ranged from revolts and revolutions by the enslaved to struggles for abolition in Britain. Bristol\u2019s first abolitionist, Saint Wulfstan in the eleventh century, was followed by networks of religious and political activists who led popular and successful campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><i>From Wulfstan to Colston <\/i> concludes by considering today\u2019s legacy of slavery and abolition as fierce debate and protest continues over who should and should not be celebrated in Bristol\u2019s memorial landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Appendices include lists of leading Bristol slave-ship agents, African resistance on Bristol slave-ships and distribution of compensation money to slave-owners in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>Paperback, 420 pages, 103 black &amp; white and colour images and 4 maps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing a thousand-year history, Mark Steeds and Roger Ball examine the involvement in slavery of Bristol\u2019s merchants, from Anglo-Saxon times through the era of exploration and colonisation, to the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the Americas. 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