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

Name: Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing – A Black History Month Hidden History Walk
Start: 2025-10-12T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-12T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Holyrood Church

Schedule

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

UTC+01:00

Location

Holyrood Church | Southampton, EN

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.