{"id":56772,"date":"2018-08-21T03:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56772"},"modified":"2018-08-21T03:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:05:38","slug":"slavery-graphic-novel-goes-to-schools-to-shed-light-on-scots-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56772","title":{"rendered":"Slavery graphic novel goes to schools to shed light on Scots history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slavery graphic novel goes to schools to shed light on Scots history<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The National<\/a>
\n2018-08-09<\/p>\n

Kirsteen Paterson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/a>
\nThe work is an ‘ambitious collaboration’ between independent publisher BHP Comics<\/a> and Glasgow University<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

EVERY third year pupil in Scotland<\/a> is to be schooled on Scotland\u2019s slave past thanks to a new graphic novel.<\/em><\/p>\n

As many as 12,000 copies of Freedom Bound<\/em><\/a>, which draws from research into slavery in the 1700s, are to be distributed around the country within weeks.<\/p>\n

The work is an \u201cambitious collaboration\u201d between independent publisher BHP Comics<\/a> and Glasgow University, with illustrations from veteran artist Warren Pleece<\/a>, whose credits include DC Comics and 2000AD.<\/p>\n

The result is 144 pages that tell the stories of three people brought to Scotland to serve white masters…<\/p>\n

…Launching the online archive in June, Professor Simon Newman<\/a> of Glasgow University, who worked on Freedom Bound<\/em>, said the loss of slave stories from the national memory had been \u201caccidental\u201d, telling The National: \u201cBecause there weren\u2019t huge numbers of these people, because they formed relationships with the white population, they just disappeared.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect there are a good number of us who have African DNA<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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