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Richard Maguire
Richard Maguire was introduced as a historian at large who taught at UEA and worked at the Norfolk Records office, having researched nuclear weapons, financial crises, and labour disputes. Richard Maguire discussed the transatlantic slave trade, its links to East Anglia, Norfolk, and Suffolk, and the creation of racism as a justification. He also spoke about the intellectual agency of enslaved people and the 1831 Jamaican rebellion.
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Richard Maguire: How Research Into Norfolk And Suffolk's Slave-Trade Links Began
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Historian Richard Maguire explains that in 2007 the Norfolk Record Office, the Racial Equality Council and the Museums and Archaeology Service won Heritage Lottery funding, tied to the 200th anniversary of abolition, to see whether there was anything to find in Norfolk and Suffolk.
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