Abstract
This essay examines the rhetoric surrounding the report “Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow” and associated strategies of dissemination. This will include, for example, critical analysis of press releases in print and social media and how British newspapers responded to the release. The rhetoric and language contained in commemorative emblems - such as a plaque and the naming of a new learning and teaching hub after Dr. James McCune Smith, the first African American physican in the world - will also be examined and analyzed. In focusing on the University of Glasgow’s project that acknowledged income from transatlantic slavery, this essay examines the rhetoric around the actions that will mark and implement a shift in the institution’s official history and identity to incorporate the historic connections with enslaved people across the Atlantic world.
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