Texas Showcase presents: 

"A revealing chapter in the history of interactions between Wales and the United States involves the relationship between antislavery and the ethnic reconstruction of the Welsh which took place in the nineteenth century.

Their alleged anti-slavery credentials allowed the Welsh to define themselves as more ethical and Christian than the other British nations and was a key plank invention of Nonconformist, religious, ‘Welshness’.

Professor Daniel G. Williams, director of Swansea University’s Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales and was a Leverhulme Trust funded Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2012.