{"id":76,"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-09-29T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:00:33","slug":"session-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/2014\/09\/29\/session-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 1: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be\u00a0an introduction to the module, giving an\u00a0overview\u00a0of its themes and key questions. We will discuss the handbook, assessment and\u00a0seminars\u00a0as well as dividing up work for the next sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though not an academic monograph, this popular history provides a readable overview of the historical events we will be looking at over the next few weeks:<\/strong><br \/>\nHochschild, A. <em>Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Walvin\u2019s books also provide good and readable introductions:<\/strong><br \/>\nWalvin, J. <em>Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery<\/em> (1993).<br \/>\nWalvin, J. <em>Questioning Slavery<\/em> (1996).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be\u00a0an introduction to the module, giving an\u00a0overview\u00a0of its themes and key questions. We will discuss the handbook, assessment and\u00a0seminars\u00a0as well as dividing up work for the next sessions. Though not an academic monograph, this popular history provides a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/2014\/09\/29\/session-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811570,9434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-1","category-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}