History of Slavery

2M0FXCW Sir Geoff Palmer, leader of Edinburgh's Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group, stands alongside a plaque commemorating the historic Scottish slavery case, Knight v Wedderburn, during an installation ceremony at the Court of Session at Parliament House in Edinburgh, to mark the case's contribution to tackling slavery. Picture date: Tuesday December 6, 2022.

Joseph Knight v. John Wedderburn: A Defining Moment in Scotland’s Struggle with Slavery

The story of Joseph Knight isn’t simply the story of a man seeking his freedom in an 18th-century…


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

Thomas Clarkson, ‘Cabinet of Freedom’, Anti-slave trade campaign chest, 1787—8. Reproduced and used with the permission of the Trustees of the Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Cambridge Thursday 10 April

The Rebel From Wisbech

In this lunchtime lecture, join Sarah Coleman – former Articles for Change Project Curator at Wisbech & Fenland…

Northampton Friday 11 April

The Real Thing

The Real Thing, with original vocalists Chris Amoo & Dave Smith, are on tour promoting their first new album…

Bedfordshire Friday, 11 April

Nabil Abdulrashid : Urban Battuta – Luton

Award-winning, international touring comedian Nabil Abdulrashid returns with a riotous new stand-up show. Award-winning, international touring comedian Nabil…

GABRIELLE tour 2021
Manchester Saturday 12 April 2025

Gabrielle

After selling-out all 32 nights during last year’s ‘30 Years of Dreaming’ tour, Gabrielle now announces an even bigger run of shows…

Glasgow Sunday 13 April 2025

Mo Gilligan: In The Moment World Tour

Triple BAFTA winning stand-up sensation, Mo Gilligan, returns with his highly anticipated World Tour… In the Moment.  …