![]() ![]() Shoppers and stall-minders alike-transfixed by the edelweiss, roasting chestnuts, mulled wine, and gingerbread-paid little mind to the building across the street. Now I see a real awareness.” August 1 has been celebrated as Emancipation Day across the countries of the Caribbean since the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire. As part of that cultural reawakening, it is being marked for the first time in Glasgow this year. The city, lest we forget, built its 18th century fortune on the sugar, tobacco and slavery trade with Africa and the Americas. “I was almost a lone voice seven years ago when I started doing walking tours and exploring the public side of it. It is historians as well as academics, there’s a new historiographical understanding,” says the author of the acclaimed book, It Wisnae Us! The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery. ![]() “People are starting to think about Glasgow’s colonial past in a new way, and it can only be described as a cultural awakening. Follow on Twitter Glasgow’s role in the slave trade to ending the US embargo against Cuba, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. ![]()
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