History of Slavery

Jacques Callot, The Slave Market, 1629. Picture: National Gallery of Art / CC0 - Credit: National Gallery of Art / CC0

The last slave owners of Islington

Islington in the 1830s was transforming from rural outskirts into a genteel suburb. Like today, bricks and mortar…


View of island Goree with fort and Dakar city visible in the background. Gorée Island. Dakar, Senegal. Africa. Île de Gorée.

Slave Trade Routes

Countless local and regional slave trades in Europe, Africa, and the Americas combined to create the transatlantic slave…


The Slave Hunt” depicts soldiers from Sokoto raiding a village to capture slaves. [Harper’s Weekly (Sept. 12, 1857), p. 581]

The Slave Hunt – Capture and Captives

For three and a half centuries, European slavers carried African captives across the Atlantic in slave ships originating…


Slaves for Sale in New Orleans in April 1861. In urban New Orleans, some slaves were skilled servants, drivers, and cooks for the well to do. April 1861.

Economics and the Slave Trade

The number of European and American merchants, shipbuilders, and investors directly involved in the transatlantic slave trade over…


Williams Pantycelyn was a pioneer in publishing slave narratives in Welsh

The Welsh abolitionists

The abolitionists were up against some formidable economic interests – and some of them even ended up getting…


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Black History Month

2025 LISTINGS

Camden Thursday 4th September – Saturday 4th October 2025

Freedom Rising: The Art of Owusu-Ankomah

October Gallery presents Freedom Rising: The Art of Owusu-Ankomah, a landmark posthumous exhibition honouring one of Ghana’s most…

Bristol Friday 5 September

The Real Thing

Formed in 1972, The Real Thing are Britain’s longest-established – and best-loved – black group in UK entertainment…

Leeds Saturday 6 September

Eddie Kadi: Let Me Land

One of comedy’s fastest-rising stars is hitting the road for his first ever nationwide tour. Eddie Kadi brings…

Camden Sunday 7 September

The Twinkle Brothers

Legendary roots reggae outfit The Twinkle Brothers return to bring their timeless sound to the stage. Emerging in…