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Category - slave trade

21 Mar 2007

Apology for transatlantic slave trade
21 Mar 2007

Senior bishop criticises evangelicals and other Christians over slave trade abolition

A senior Church of England bishop has criticised evangelicals who backed the campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade and highlighted how his predecessors justified the trade and opposed William Wilberforce's attempts to end it.
16 Mar 2007

Online exhibition traces origins of slave trade abolition

Quakers in Britain have launched an online exhibition of archived resources tracing the history of the anti slavery movement from its Quaker beginnings to the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and beyond.
11 Mar 2007

Scottish churches will walk to commemorate slave trade abolition

A gathering in Musselburgh will trace the footsteps of a famous son of a black Jamaican slave
9 Mar 2007

Remembrance is not enough

As the bicentenary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade approaches Jonathan Bartley says we are enslaved until Africa is free
28 Feb 2007

Bicentenary of UK Parliament’s Abolition of Slave Trade

Bicentenary of UK Parliament’s Abolition of Slave Trade
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27 Feb 2007

Freedom! sculpture tours UK to mark bicentenary of slave trade abolition

As the UK commemorates the end of the slave trade, an original sculpture has been commissioned by Christian Aid and National Museums Liverpool from a group of Haitian artists representing their continuing struggle for freedom and human rights.
19 Feb 2007

Memory of slave trade puts Anglican rows in perspective

A slave market whipping post once stood where the high altar now rises inside Zanzibar's 127-year-old Christ Church Cathedral. Here the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, began the Eucharist on 18 February 2007 with prayers asking "forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future" - writes Bob Williams for Episcopal News Service USA.
25 Jan 2007

Human Trafficking and Slavery, Thought for the Day BBC Radio 4 24th January 2007
23 Jan 2007

Britain to sign up to European convention on human trafficking

In a move that has been welcomed by campaigners, the Prime Minister has announced that Britain will sign up to a European convention to "stamp out" human trafficking.

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