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Marika Sherwood’s new book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 (published by I B Tauris) pulls together many hours of research on the profits from slavery that Britain continued to . The book asks many difficult questions and is packed with facts and references - OUT NOW. Caroline Bressey will soon be completing her research on Catherine Impey who lived in Street, Somerset and started an ‘anti-caste’ journal in March 1888. Caroline is trying to map (being a geographer) the people who were connected to this early form of anti-racism – an article on Catherine and Anti-Caste will appear in the January 2008 Newsletter and education posters will be available for schools or libraries to hire at the end of this year.
An East Kent branch of BASA is in the process of being set up by local members in order to foster research. They are planning a conference, with support from the University of Kent, in order to interest more people. Kent Archives have some HLF funding to search some local deposits, focussing on the trade in enslaved Africans. An example of a recent resident about whom not much is known at present is 'Zulu Chief Albert White-Makaula', who, according to the obituary in the Kent Messenger (Sept. 1937 - person who sent it did not give exact date - the first two weeks, judging by the adverts) had farmed in St.Mary Cray, Doddington and Challock in East Kent.
'Belonging in Europe'conference hosted by the Equiano Centre, UCL, November 8-9 2007
A conference on the Seventy years of The Black Jacobins to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, Saturday 2 February 2008.
A One-Day Conference on Muslim Geographies, Saturday 5th April 2008, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Cliff Pereira's research for the Royal Geographical Society on the Bombay Africans
Miranda Kaufmann's article about Casper Van Senden
The Black and Asian studies association
B.A.S.A 2007