Tom Thorpe is leading a course on Belfast and slavery as part of the QUB open learning programme starting on 22.1.25 for 10 weeks. https://ecommerce.apps.qub.ac.uk/osol/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=108&products_id=1288&osCsid=4bv7k2ep4os9asst5cmeuthe57 This course explores Belfast’s involvement in the international transatlantic slave trade and its role as a centre of abolitionist agitation. It firstly examines how Belfast’s merchant classes in the mid-18th century were involved in trade with the slave plantations in the West Indies. The course then examines how, by the 1790s, the city became increasingly known as a centre of radical thought fighting against the…
QUB open learning course on Belfast and slavery
