Panel reading lists

Recommended reading from our Truth Telling panellists.

Panel 1: People not Property, Names not Numbers

Reports from the Church of England

• Lament to Action
• Archbishop’s Commission on Racial Justice- Reports 1-4

Sources provided by panellists

• ‘After the Flood: The Churches Slavery and Reconciliation’ Movement for Justice and Reconciliation (2022) 
• Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• ‘Enslavement: Voices from the Archives’ Exhibition hosted in 2023
• ‘Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide: Black, Asian and other UKME history’ 2022. The Library has also produced an overview of sources relating to this subject in its collections: Black-Asian-and-other-UKME-history.pdf (lambethpalacelibrary.info).
• ‘Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide: Using QAB Data’ 2022
• ‘St Mary Redcliffe unveils new windows on 60th anniversary of Bristol Bus Boycott’ Diocese of Bristol (August 31^st 2023)
• ‘The Empire Pays Back’ Channel 4 (2005)
• The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Database
• ‘The Church Commissioners Research into Historic Links to Transatlantic Chattel Slavery’ 2023 
• ‘The Church’s Slave Plantation’ BBC World Service (June 17^th 2022).

Panel 2: Women, Slavery and the Church

• Sheena Boa, Colour, class and gender in post-emancipation St. Vincent, 1834-1884 (PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 1998)
• Phillip Gibbs, Instructions for the Treatment of Negroes, &C. &C. &C 
• Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford Academic, 2011) 
• Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of A West India Proprietor 
• Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property
  White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019)
• Chine McDonald, God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021)
• Rev Mr. William Smith, A Natural History of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America (Cambridge, 1745)
• Natalie Zacek, School of History and Classics, University of Manchester, Reading the rebels: currents of slave resistance in the eighteenth-century British West Indies.

Panel 3: Liverpool, Slavery and Church of England

• Documentary - After the Flood: The Church, Slavery and Reconciliation
• Hodgson, Christopher. (1784-1874), An account of the augmentation of small livings, by "The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy," and of benefactions by corporate bodies and individuals, to the end of the year 1825: also the charters, rules, and acts of Parliament (Oxford University, London: 1826)
• Miller, Professor Paul, Dr Leroi Henry, Dr Kenisha Linton-William, and Dr Ericcson Mapfumo. ‘Behind the Stained-Glass: A report on the participation of UK Minoritised Ethnic People in the Ministry and Leadership of the Church of England,’ Institute for Educational & Social Equity (August 2024)
• Stone, Selina. 'If it wasn't for God': A Report on the Wellbeing of Global Majority Heritage Clergy in the Church of England,’ Living Ministry Focussed Study 3 (October 2022)
• Westgaph, Laurence. Read The Signs - Street Names with a Connection to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in Liverpool.