Abolition! Anti-Slavery campaigning: Central London Landmarks
Schedule
Sat Jan 11 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:30 pm
Location
Pavement at North Exit Chancery Lane Station | London, EN
Runaway slaves, free blacks and many white Londoners campaigned for a century to abolish slavery and the slave trade. Holborn to Embankment.About this Event
This walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery and slave-trading between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s. Fugitive and former slaves, white lawyers, activists and orators along with black activists, authors and musicians come alive in a walk from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street, Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden, ending at Embankment Gardens. The capture in London of escaped slaves led to legal cases espoused by campaigners. Slaves were given as gifts by West Indies travellers and slave-owners to wealthy Londoners who often considered them fashion-accessories. There were small communities of free blacks, many working as servants, and blacks made free by fighting on the British side during wars thronged to London, some becoming beggars but others getting by and even moving into the middle class. On the walk you meet Olaudah Equiano, James Somerset, Granville Sharp, Billy Waters, Sarah Parker Remond, Thomas Clarkson, Mary Prince, Ottobah Cuguano, Elizabeth Heyrick, Samuel Johnson, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and more names now usually forgotten.
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Where is it happening?
Pavement at North Exit Chancery Lane Station, High Holborn, London, United KingdomGBP 15.00
