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Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow

Report, September 2018

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Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery

From 26 August 2019

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Runaways London

Born out of Prof. Simon Newman’s work on Runaways Slaves in Britain, comes an ambitious project, Runaways London, that focuses on Black fugitivity and resisting enslavement in London during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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News & Events

  • 23 Feb

    National Trust for Scotland & Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies Symposium 2023

    Scipio Kennedy: Encountering Children in Empires, Culzean Castle, 14 – 15 September 2023
  • 23 Feb

    Lives in slavery: Exploring the slave registers of Suriname and Curacao, 1830-18

    Symposium on Thursday 16 March 2023
  • 17 Oct

    Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies Visiting Research Fellow 2022

    We are delighted to welcome Dr Jennifer Leetsch (University of Bonn) to the Centre for the next four weeks.
  • 10 Oct

    James McCune Smith Annual Lecture 2022

    Thursday 17 November 2022
  • 19 Apr

    Celebration of James McCune Smith’s 209th birthday

    The Beniba Centre has created a short film about his medical activism.
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