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Introductory material

For a general introduction to the topic of Devon’s link with slavery, see papers produced by Lucy MacKeith and Jill Allen.

For a general introduction to the topic of Devon’s link with slavery, see three papers produced by Lucy MacKeith:

Her 2003 booklet ‘Local Black History: A Beginning in Devon’

Her paper ‘Unravelling Devon Involvement in Slave-ownership‘, presented at the 2015 UCL workshop

Her Powerpoint presentation From the Margins to the Middle and the recording of her talk, given at the Hidden Histories Seminar, held in Plymouth in 2016.

Jill Allen’s paper ‘A Typology of Devon Slave-owners’ was published in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 154, pp. 36-60, 2022.

Alphabetical summary table of Devon slave-owners

Demographic analysis of Devon slave-owners

We are not the only people researching Devon’s connection with transatlantic slavery. Local historian Todd Gray gives talks and has published works on this theme. His work may also be found online.