Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing – A Black History Month Hidden History Walk

Schedule

Sun Oct 12 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Holyrood Church | Southampton, EN

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Southampton in Jane Austen’s day was a watering place famed for sea bathing, but it was also a town dominated, in politics, by the ‘West Indian Party’ – plantation owners who fought against abolition and made their money from sugar and rum. It was a town of admirals, shipbuilders and colonialists who were at the forefront of a growing empire.
This walk is commissioned as part of the University of Southampton’s Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded Maritime Communities research project.
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Holyrood Church, Southampton, United Kingdom

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