Liverpool and the Slave Trade
The town and its inhabitants derived great civic and personal wealth from the trade which laid the foundations…
History of Slavery
WATCH: Liverpool’s Hidden Horrors of Slavery
With Liverpool City Council about to unveil a selection of information plaques on a handful of streets connected…
Community Heroes of the Past: Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Since its formation in 1532 under the guide of King Henry VIII, the Anglican Church has been a…
The ZONG Project “Addressing the legacy of colonial slavery and industrial exploitation”
The Movement for Justice and Reconciliation was established in 2015 to highlight and address the legacy of the…
Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The slave trade was part of the network of trade which existed between Britain, West Africa and the…
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
It is against this background that the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its…
Parliament and the British Slave Trade
By the end of the 17th century Parliament, with Royal support and backing, had supervised the development of…
Black Abolitionists and the end of the transatlantic slave trade
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807) gave the Church an opportunity to address the controversial and…
Elizabeth Heyrick: Abolitionist Campaigner
Born as Elizabeth Coltman, in 1789, in Leicester, Elizabeth became a member of the Society of Friends and…
Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement
The African continent is now recognised as the birthplace of humanity and the cradle of civilization. We still…
The Global Dispersion of The African People
Anyone who has had their DNA tested will have noticed groups of people carrying the same DNA in…
The Origins of ‘slave food’: Callaloo, Dumplings and Saltfish
The actual origins of Callaloo are widely contested. For Trinidadians, Callaloo is one part of their national dish:…
Toussaint Louverture: The First Successful Slave Revolt Leader
Little is known for certain about Toussaint Louverture’s early life, as there are contradictory accounts and evidence about…
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts…
Life on board slave ships
Conditions on board ship during the Middle Passage were appalling. The men were packed together below deck and…
Recap: Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
This documentary follows the research undertaken by the UCL database, which I wrote about here. Currently the first…
“Legacies of British Slave-Ownership”, A UCL Database
So when it came to my attention that there was a database detailing the compensation claims of almost…
Scotland and Slavery
Scots proudly played their part in the abolition of the trade. But for a time we misted over…
The Welsh slave owner and anti-abolitionist MP Richard Pennant
In Jamaica there exists a community called Pennants. It was named after a family that arrived from Flintshire,…
Ottobah Cugoano
Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart (c.1757 – after 1791), was an African abolitionist who was active…
