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Category - abolition of slavery

  • 31 Dec 2010
    Living with the shadow of slavery

    With its many natural harbours and gold deposits, 58 of the 60 colonial forts built on the Guinea Coast of West Africa are situated in what is modern Ghana - the first former European (latterly British) colony to gain independence, in 1957.

  • 28 Jan 2009
    Black abolitionist to be honoured at church in Westminster

    The popular notion that the anti-slave trade movement was a white one is being challenged by the honouring of a key black campaigner for abolitionism through a memorial in St Margaret’s Church in Westminster.

  • 25 Mar 2007
    Archbishop joins calls for slave trade apology

    The Archbishop of York has joined calls by other church leaders and politicians for the British Prime Minister to make a formal apology for its part in the transatlantic slave trade.