The 'Second Middle Passage': British Abolitionism and the Emigration Journeys from St Helena to the British West Indies (1840-60).

英国在废除大西洋奴隶贸易方面的作用继续被作为民族自豪感的来源，在公共和政治话语中受到赞扬。在2007年宣布“废除奴隶贸易二百周年”时，约翰·普雷斯科特强调英国“在立法反对邪恶贸易方面领先世界”。近十年后，大卫卡梅隆将废奴融入了“英国”的概念，声称我们不应该“对我们的成就感到拘谨”，因为“这是一个帮助.的国家。废除奴隶制”。这种自鸣得意的话语的创造，同时尽量减少英国在过去400年的奴役作用，提出了一个明显的讽刺。与英国“胜利”的叙述相反，这个博士学位将通过圣赫勒拿岛移民计划的透镜突出废除死刑的可怕和基本上未知的人类后果。从1840年到19世纪60年代中期，这个偏远的岛屿成为英国海军从非法奴隶船上捕获的非洲奴隶的“解放”之地。岛上的容量有限和随后的过度拥挤促使实施移民计划，将“解放”的非洲人运送到英属西印度群岛。

Britain's role in the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade continues to be drawn on as a source of national pride, celebrated in public and political discourse. Announcing the 'Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade' in 2007, John Prescott highlighted that Britain had 'led the world in legislating against the vil trade'. Nearly a decade later, David Cameron merged abolition into ideas of 'Britishness', claiming that we should not be 'squeamish about our achievements', as 'this is the country that helped...abolish slavery'. The creation of this self-congratulatory discourse whilst minimising Britain's role in enslavement over the previous 400 years presents an obvious irony. In contrast to the narrative of British 'triumph', this PhD will highlight the horrifying and largely unknown human consequences of abolition through the lens of St Helena's emigration scheme. From 1840 until the mid-1860s, the remote island became a place of 'liberation' for enslaved Africans captured by the British Navy from illegal slaving vessels. Limited capacity and subsequent overcrowding on the island motivated the implementation of an emigration scheme, transporting 'liberated' Africans to the British West Indies.