People not Property, Names not Numbers Reading List

We would encourage you to review these resources prior to the event.

Reports from the Church of England:

1. Lament to Action

2. Archbishop’s Commission on Racial Justice- Reports 1-4

Additional Sources Provided by Panelists:

 ‘After the Flood: The Churches Slavery and Reconciliation’ Movement for Justice and Reconciliation (2022) 

Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

‘Enslavement: Voices from the Archives’ Exhibition hosted in 2023

‘Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide: Black, Asian and other UKME history’ 2022. The Library has also produced an overview of sources relating to this subject in its collections: Black-Asian-and-other-UKME-history.pdf (lambethpalacelibrary.info)

‘Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide: Using QAB Data’ 2022

‘St Mary Redcliffe unveils new windows on 60th anniversary of Bristol Bus Boycott’ Diocese of Bristol (August 31st 2023)

‘The Empire Pays Back’ Channel 4 (2005)

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Database

‘The Church Commissioners Research into Historic Links to Transatlantic Chattel Slavery’ 2023 

‘The Church’s Slave Plantation’ BBC World Service (June 17th 2022)

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