{"id":5289,"date":"2024-06-04T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:52:32","slug":"robert-wedderburn-and-the-red-and-black-atlantic-radicalism-insurrection-anti-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wedderburn and the &#8220;Red and Black Atlantic&#8221;: Radicalism, Insurrection, Anti-Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Contact:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;for conference enquiries<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>27th-28th September 2024 &#8211; for more information see the website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetdundeecityregion.co.uk\/attending\/conferences\/robert-wedderburn-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 marks the bi-centenary of the publication of Robert Wedderburn\u2019s unsparing antislavery memoir\u00a0<em>The Horrors of Slavery<\/em>\u00a0(1824).\u00a0This 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 &#8220;Red and Black Atlantic&#8221; of which he was a part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes the people, ideas and cultures that shaped Wedderburn&#8217;s life and work through slavery and resistance;&nbsp;the influence of his mother Rosanna and maternal grandmother Talky Amy; theological and political liberation; the politics of abolition from below;&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisers envisage that the papers delivered at this conference will form the basis for a special issue of a journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To propose a paper or panel, please send an abstract of around 250 words per presentation to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;before midnight on&nbsp;15 June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible themes for papers include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wedderburn\u2019s life, work, legacy, and contemporary relevance for modern radical and antiracist movements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Wedderburn\u2019s life, work, legacy, and contemporary relevance for modern radical and antiracist movements<\/li><li>Rosanna, Talky Amy and genealogies of resistance<\/li><li>Radical and resisting women<\/li><li>The relationship between radicalism and antislavery in the Atlantic world<\/li><li>Insurrectionary traditions in the Caribbean and British islands<\/li><li>British working-class and labour cultures in colonial contexts<\/li><li>Class, race, and gender dynamics of popular uprisings<\/li><li>Complications and nuances of transatlantic resistance and solidarity between enslaved and labouring people<\/li><li>The regional and global ramifications of the Haitian Revolution and other Caribbean wars for freedom, e.g. Tacky\u2019s War<\/li><li>Local intellectual milieux for Wedderburn e.g. Kingston, Edinburgh, London<\/li><li>Visions for decolonisation and anticolonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Caribbean.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact:&nbsp;RobertWedderburn200@gmail.com&nbsp;for conference enquiries 27th-28th September 2024 &#8211; for more information see the website&nbsp;here. 2024 marks the bi-centenary of the publication of Robert Wedderburn\u2019s unsparing antislavery memoir\u00a0The Horrors of Slavery\u00a0(1824).\u00a0This conference&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5289\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5290,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}