Rise up: resistance, revolution, abolition

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Dark finance: the intertwined history of slavery and abolition at the University of Cambridge / Sabine F. Cadeau -- Introducing Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Victoria Avery -- 1. Oppression and resistance -- Seeing against the grain / Mathelinda Nabugodi -- Olaudah Equiano's roots -- The 'Africa Trade' -- Life on British Caribbean plantations -- Forms of resistance -- 2. The British anti-slave trade campaign -- Breaking through: Black Georgian voices -- Cambridge connections -- Olaudah Equiano and Cambridge / Victoria Avery -- Ongoing abolition campaigning -- 3. Britain's colonies in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone -- Nova Scotia: northern exposure -- Sierra Leone: the 'province of freedom'? -- 4. Revolutions in the Caribbean -- Creation of Haiti: republic and kingdom -- Cambridge and Haiti: slavery, the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism / Sabine F. Cadeau -- Tipping points: Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica -- 5. Ending British slavery -- Women's activism -- Freedom at last? -- Celebrating Black Cambridge history -- Moving forward -- I'll think of a title after I write / Wanja Kimani -- Touching the void: on becoming an art historian and reckoning with slavery at Cambridge / Temi Odumosu -- Contributors -- Ackowledgements -- Picture credits -- Index.