Birmingham Antislavery Resources:
Archive Collections
Held at Birmingham City Archives:
The Birmingham Anti Slavery Society Minute Books [IIR 62]
Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves [IIR 62]
Birmingham Ladies Negro’s Friend Society, 1845-89, 1890-1915 [IIR 62]
The Birmingham and Midland Freedmen’s Aid Association 1864-65 [IIR 62]
The Quaker Reading Society [MS 2160]
The Montserrat Company [MS 1436]
Papers relating to Rev. Thomas Swan [MS 1675]
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Books on Slavery / Antislavery and the Birmingham Context
Grosvenor, McLean and Roberts (2002) Making Connections - Birmingham Black International History
Hall, Catherine Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867
Langford, LL.D, John Alfred, ed. (1870) A Century of Birmingham Life
Richard, Henry (1865) Memoirs of Joseph Sturge
Uglow, Jenny (2002) The Lunar Men
Midgley, Clair (1995) Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870
Sturge, Joseph and Thomas Harvey (1838) The West Indies in 1837
Dick, Malcolm (2005) Joseph Priestley and Birmingham
Thomas, Hugh (2006) The Slave Trade
Walvin, James (2000) Britain’s Slave Empire
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Slave Narratives / Black Autobiographies linked to Birmingham
The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano (1789)
Narrative of the Life of James Watkins (1853 edition)
[Aston X 310. Birmingham Vol.26]
From Bondage to Liberty, Peter Stanford (1889)
[Local Studies and History: L78.1 STA]
A Narrative of Events since the First of August, 1834 by William James, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica.
[Local Studies and History: Antislavery Pamphlets Collection 326.08 Vol. D/1]
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass (1846 edition)
[A326.973. DOU]
Click here for a fuller list of Slavery / Antislavery Resources in Local Studies and History Collections
Click here for a complete list of the Antislavery Pamphlet Collection
Click here for a list of Slavery / Antislavery Resources in Birmingham City Archives
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Websites
http://www.antislavery.org Anti Slavery International, a campaigning group that continues to fight slavery around the world
http://docsouth.unc.edu American South - excellent for researching works of black activists who may have come to Birmingham
http://www.headleypark.bristol.sch.uk/slavery Bristol Slavery - website on Bristol and its links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade
http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition British Abolitionists - maintained by Brycchan Carey providing biographical information
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory Liverpool - extensive section on the city's slavery connections, including slave trails
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk Cowper & Newton Museum - contains information about the former slave ship captain John Newton
http://www.scan.org.uk/exhibitions/blackhistory Glasgow and Slavery - online exhibition by the Scottish Archive Network
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/slavery Merseyside Maritime Museum -
Liverpool and the slave trade
http://www.unhchr.ch Office of the High Commission for Human Rights - fact sheet on contemporary forms of slavery
http://www.portcities.org.uk PortCitiesUK - sections on Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery, and The Impact on Liverpool of Abolition
http://www.setallfree.net Set All Free - anti-slavery initiative established by Churches Together in England
http://portal.unesco.org/culture The Slave Route - a site maintained by UNESCO
http://www.understandingslavery.com Teaching resource for planning lessons on the Transatlantic Slave Trade at KS3 and KS4
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20th Century Campaigns for Social Justice Resources:
The resources below, some of which have been used in this section of the learning package, provide a starting point from which to research social justice in post-war Britain.
Archive Collections
Held at Birmingham City Archives:
Papers of the Indian Workers' Association deposited by Shirley Joshi [MS 2141]
Papers of the Indian Workers' Association deposited by Avtar Jouhl [MS 2142]
Papers of Dr Mary Barrow [MS 1914]
Papers of Paul Mackney [MS 1591]
Papers of Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre (TURC) [MS 2009]
Papers of the Banner Theatre Company [MS 1611]
Charles Parker Archive [MS 4000]
Interviews from the Birmingham Black Oral History Project
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Books, Journals and Articles
Aurora, G S (1960) Indian Workers in England : a sociological and historical survey; London School of Economics: London
Clark, D (1975) 'Recollections of Resistance.' Race & Class 17 (1).
Duffield, M (1988) Black Radicalism and the Politics of De-Industrialisation; Avebury: Aldershot.
Foot, P (1965) Immigration and Race in British Politics, Penguin: London
Grosvenor, I (1997) Assimilating Identities. Racism and Educational Policy in Post 1945 Britain. Lawrence & Wishart: London
Heineman, B (1972) The Politics of the Powerless : a study of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination; Oxford University Press: London.
Hiro, D (1971) Black British White British; Eyre & Spottiswoode: London.
John, De Witt (1969) Indian Workers' Associations in Britain; Oxford University Press: London.
Josephides, S (1991) Towards a History of the IWA; Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations: Coventry.
Joshi, J Pemane Inqlab
King, J (1994) Three Asian Societies in Britain
Lalkar - IWA newsletter
Mazdoor - monthly bulletin of IWA
Movement for Colonial Freedom - reports and publications: available on Floor 4 Central library (Social Studies.)
Parmar, P (1982) 'Gender, race and class: Asian women in resistance' in The University of Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (1982) The Empire Strikes Back. Race and racism in 70s Britain; Hutchinson & co: London
Race Today Collective (1983) The Struggle of Asian Workers in Britain; Race Today Publications: London
Ramdin, R (1987) The Making of the Black Working-Class; Gower: Aldershot
Rex, J and R Moore (1967) Race, Community, and Conflict. A Study of Sparkbrook. Oxford University Press: London
Singh, N (1998) Challenge to Imperial Hegemony. The Life Story of A Great Indian Patriot Udham Singh; Punjabi University: Patiala
Sivanandan, A (1988) A Different Hunger: Writings on Black Resistance; Pluto: London
Sivanandan, A (1986) From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean Struggles in Britain; Institutue of Race Relations: London
Sondhi, R (1987) Divided families: British immigration control in the Indian subcontinent; Runnymede Trust: London
Visram, R (2002) Asians in Britain. 400 Years of History; Pluto: London
Wilson, A (1996) 'Asian Women and Industrial Restructuring. New Struggles New Strategies.' Papers from Gender and Science and Technology Association 8, Ahmedabad, India, January 1996
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Websites
http://www.connections-exhibition.org
http://www.tandana.org
http://www.movinghere.org.uk
http://www.casbah.ac.uk
http://www.irr.org.uk
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Learning materials
HomeBeats: Struggles for Racial Justice: Institute of Race Relations, 1998. A multimedia CDROM for Windows and Mac computers.
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