The Welsh and American Slavery
More about the series
The Presenter
Jerry Hunter
The presenter of the series, Dr. Jerry Hunter, hails from Cincinnati in Ohio, a city which was on the border between the slave states in the south and the free states of the North. His academic career has taken him from Cincinnati to Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Harvard, and he is now a Lecturer in Welsh at Bangor.
He has researched this series, following the success of a previous series about the American Civil War which won the Gwyn Alf Williams Memorial Prize (BAFTA).
Robert Everett 1791-1875
He is about to publish "I Ddeffro Ysbryd y Wlad – Robert Everett a'r Ymgyrch yn erbyn Caethwasanaeth Americanaidd", ("To awaken the Country's Spirit – Robert Everett and the Campaign against American Slavery"), namely the first modern study of the life of this great abolitionist.
But it is not just a historical interest in slavery that he has. Said Jerry:
In 2007 we will be celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the prohibition of the international slave trade, but according to the United Nations, there are more slaves in the world today than there were two centuries ago. As we remember those abolitionists who brought slavery to an end in America about a century and a half ago, we must remember that there is plenty of work for abolitionists in the twenty first century
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