BICENTENAIRE ABOLITION DE LA TRAITE 1807-2007

BICENTENAIRE DE L’ABOLITION DE LA TRAITE 1807-2007
Références britanniques et écossaises
Thierry Aprile (WP6)

3 brochures téléchargeables

1/ commemorative magazine : http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/DG_067157

2/ Reflecting on the past and looking to the future: The 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire : http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Publications/archive_2006/reflecting_on_the_past.htm

3/Historical review of Scotland's role in the slave trade and its abolition :
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/23121622/0


Site de référence :

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/index.htm
site officiel du bicentenaire,
plan :
*   Abolition of the slave trade homepage
    * Slavery and abolition
    * Bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade
    * Marking the bicentenary
    * Government support for the bicentenary
    * Government funding for the bicentenary
    * Issues for today
    * Commemorative magazine

Propose, entre autres, une chronologie britannique :

Slavery and abolition – key events

    * 1562 First English slaving expedition by Sir John Hawkins
    * 1619 First record of Africans landing in Virginia
    * 1625 First English settlement on Barbados
    * 1626 First boatload of African slaves to St Kitts
    * 1631 Charles I granted monopoly on Guinea trade to a group of London merchants
    * 1672 Royal Africa company granted charter to carry Africans to the Americas
    * 1772 The Somerset case held that no slave could be forcibly removed from Britain; the case led to the widespread belief that slavery itself was illegal in England, Wales and Ireland
    * 1778 Slavery declared illegal in Scotland
    * 1781 133 African slaves thrown overboard from the slave ship, 'Zong'
    * 1783 Committee on the Slave Trade established by Quakers’ Meeting for Sufferings
    * 1787 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded: Granville Sharp as president of a mostly Quaker committee
    * 1791 23 August – St Domingue (Haiti) slave revolt
    * 1792 Resolution for gradual abolition of the slave trade defeated in the House of Lords
    * 1805 Bill for Abolition passed in Commons, rejected in House of Lords
    * 1807 25 March – Slave Trade Abolition Bill passed in the British Parliament
    * 1807 British West Africa Squadron (Royal Navy) established to suppress slave trading; by 1865, nearly 150,000 people freed by anti-slavery operations
    * 1815 End of Napoleonic Wars - at the Congress of Vienna, Britain puts pressure on France, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain to abolish slave trade
    * 1838 1 August – enslaved men, women and children in the Caribbean finally become free after a period of forced apprenticeship, following the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833
    * 1842 Britain and United States signed Webster-Ashburton Treaty, banning slave trade on high seas
    * 1848 Emancipation by the French of their slaves
    * 1865 Slavery finally abolished in the United States territories
    * 1888 Slavery abolished in Brazil


http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=47000688&mediaId=47000690
(timbres commémoratifs)

http://www.royalmint.com/Shop/ViewProductRange.aspx?theme=Abolition%20of%20Slave%20Trade
(pièces commémoratives)

EGLISES

http://www.setallfree.net/
(site des églises britanniques)

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/abolition/teachers/religiousobservance/index.asp
une proposition d’activités autour du livre d’Equiano

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/
site de la BBC, Chapitre what’s the History ?
notamment, une carte interactive : http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/launch_anim_slavery.shtml

CULTURE
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/Museums_galleries/bicentenary_abolition_slave_trade.htm
(ministère de la culture, media et sport) qui dresse la liste des expositions à Londres, Bristol, Liverpool, Hull…
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/
(Londres)
http://www.empiremuseum.co.uk/exhibitions/st2007.htm
(Bristol)

ARCHIVES

http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/slaveTrade.asp
site des archives écossaises sur la question

3 EXPOS EN LIGNE SUR LE SITE DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES :
expo 1 : « black presence » : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/
[Dont 2 cartes tirées d’une expo en ligne aux archives britanniques http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/africa_caribbean/west_africa.htm]

expo 2 : « caribbean history » : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/


expo 3 : « abolition of slavery » : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery/

PEDAGOGIE

http://www.understandingslavery.com/teachingslavetrade/introduction/
un site entièrement pédagogique et didactique, comprenant une liste de biographies, un glossaire, etc… une mine !

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/abolition/teachers/resources.asp
une série de liens pédagogiques et de ressources

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/abolition/index.asp
propositions pédagogiques
plan du site :
* Scotland and the Abolition of the Slave Trade home
    * The Slave Trade
    * Stolen in Africa
    * Middle Passage
    * Black Servants in Scotland
    * Black Resistance
    * Abolitionist Movement
    * Abolitionists in Scotland
    * Passing the Act
    * Legacy
    * Slavery Today
    * Image Gallery
+ teachers avec FAQ intéressantes

images dans image galleries très intéressantes (notamment glassford family, et the palaver)


http://www.friendsofscotland.gov.uk/scotlandnow/issue-06/history/burns-and-slavery.html
un problème délicat : les rapports entre Robert Burns (l’autre héros national écossais avec Walter Scott) et la traite et l’esclavage