Ref NoMS 4000/2/130
Title'The Slave Trade'
LevelSeries
Date1969
DescriptionResearch papers and scripts including:
- 'Whiphand', script of a play by the Notting Hill Players.

Radio scripts:
- 'Black on White', by David Lytton, (n.d.).
- 'Let My People Go', a musical account of the history of black people in America in 3 parts by Charles Chilton (1968).
- 'I Have A Dream', about Dr Martin Luther King (1968).
- 'Black Power' (1968).
- 'Botany Bay', by Charles Chilton (1968).
- 'The Issues Dividing America', by Keith Hindell (1968).
- 'Violence in America', by H C Allen (1968).

Television scripts:
- 'The Colour War', by David Wheeler (1968).
- 'White Africa', by Hugh Burnett (1968).
- 'The Heart of Apartheid', by Hugh Burnett (1968).
- 'Europa', about the rise of facism in Germany (1968).

Publications:
- 'The Slave Trade and its Abolition', Jackdaw education pack edited by Langdon Davies (1965).
- Booklets on the Slave Trade and anti-Slave Trade in Bristol.
- Photocopy of 'Revelations of a Slave Smuggler', the autobiography of a slave ship captain, Captain Richard Drake (1860).

Correspondence:
- Copies of letters between Leon Gluckman and Jim Fleming (Africa Projects, American Broadcasting Company) with film scripts for sequences in Lagos, Nigeria and Cape Town, South Africa among other locations incorporating African folk music.
- Correspondence from Dr Sheila Smith of Nottingham University about the Slave Trade, Carlyle and J S Mill.

Music:
- 'We'll Never Turn Back' song sheet, compiled by Alan Lomax and others (1968).
- 'The Origins of Polyphony' radio script by A L Lloyd (1968).
- 'Ethiopian Folk Polyphony', article by Jean Jenkins (1968).
- 'Negro Folk Rhymes' by Thomas Talley (1928) and (1922).
- Disc notes for 'In White America' by Martin Duberman (c. 1963).

Newscuttings, including:
- 'The Coloured Man's View of the British' article by Dilip Hiro.
- 'Black is Beautiful' article by Dilip Hiro from 'New Society' journal (1968).
- Newscuttings on the situation in Biafra.
Extent2
16
FormatVolumes
Files
Related MaterialRelated sound recordings for this project are catalogued in section MS 4000/6/1/59.
Access StatusOpen
AdminHistoryPlans and documents for a musical documentary on the Slave Trade, the project was not completed.
LanguageEnglish
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