Hannah-Rose Murray

Jessica R. Pliley and Zoe Trodd, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies. 

Hannah-Rose Murray is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham. Her research, titled “The Low Growl of the Lion: Transatlantic Abolitionism and African American Resistance in Britain 1845-1895”, seeks to analyse the influence of African Americans in British society in the mid nineteenth century, how they resisted British racism and impacted abolitionist reform networks. Her work will also contribute to the study of Africans in Britain and for the first time she have confirmed that not only were Africans present at Douglass’ meetings but they also used his antislavery platform to make political statements about their social condition. Her project will build on work she began during my Public History MA at Royal Holloway University, such as the creation of a digital resource about Douglass in Britain (https://sites.google.com/site/frederickdouglassinbritain/)

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