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

Liverpool Friday 12 July 2025

Kinky Boots

After inheriting his family’s failing shoe factory and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to…

Brixton Tuesday 8 July

Windmill to Windrush

Join local guide Diana for a captivating two-hour walking tour through the heart of Brixton, tracing over 2,000…

Camden Thursday 10 July

Evelyn “Champagne” King

A true icon of the disco era and beyond, Evelyn “Champagne” King brings her legendary voice and undeniable…

Camden Friday 11 July

Onyx

Get ready for a night of unrelenting energy and raw lyrical fire as Onyx, the legendary hardcore hip-hop…