Speakers
- Hannah-Rose Murray
- University of Nottingham
Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray researches formerly enslaved testimony in the Black Atlantic. During her PhD thesis, It is Time for the Slaves to Speak: Transatlantic Abolitionism and African American Resistance (contracted with Cambridge University Press), she theorized an interdisciplinary concept called ‘adaptive resistance’, in which she argues that activists adapted to the climate and region they spoke in, and to the people they lectured to, in order to win support for abolition. Murray has developed a digital humanities project, www.frederickdouglassinbritain.com, where she has mapped the speaking locations of African American abolitionists in the British Isles. She has organised talks, exhibitions, community events and plays on both sides of the Atlantic.