{"id":776,"date":"2014-11-18T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=776"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:09:23","slug":"slavery-abolition-and-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/11\/18\/slavery-abolition-and-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery, Abolition and Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to podcasts by Christer Petley, interviewed by <a title=\"Prior\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/humanities\/about\/staff\/cp8g12.page\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Prior<\/a>, about slavery in the British Empire, the\u00a0abolition of the slave trade and the ending of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>We have created these as part of a wider series in response to the choice of Jeremy Paxman&#8217;s book, <i>Empire<\/i> as the book for a University of Southampton initiative designed to encourage staff and students across students to read a book and discuss its themes.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, <a title=\"OBOS\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. While in some ways, this book provides a readable introduction to selected themes in British imperial history, aimed at a popular audience, it&#8217;s focus and assertions are also often problematic, as these discussions show:<\/p>\n<p>The first podcast is about the history of slavery:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-776-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-Slavery-podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-Slavery-podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-Slavery-podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second is about abolition and emancipation:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-776-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-podcast-abolition.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-podcast-abolition.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/files\/2014\/11\/Petley-podcast-abolition.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to podcasts by Christer Petley, interviewed by Christopher Prior, about slavery in the British Empire, the\u00a0abolition of the slave trade and the ending of slavery. We have created these as part of a wider series in response to the choice of Jeremy Paxman&#8217;s book, Empire as the book for a University of Southampton initiative [&hellip;]<!-- 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}