Life on board slave ships
Conditions on board ship during the Middle Passage were appalling. The men were packed together below deck and…
History of Slavery
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…
