The London home of slave abolitionists who fled to Britain from the US after escaping slavery in Georgia is to be commemorated in a blue plaque. Ellen and William Craft are famed... Read more »
Goldsmiths, University of London has launched a public consultation outside Deptford Town Hall over whether it should take down four statues with links to colonialism. Student group, Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action have demanded... Read more »
“The review is now complete, and artworks depicting former governors and directors, where we have been able to establish links to the slave trade, have been removed from display,” a spokesperson for... Read more »
Arrests made by police in a number of London boroughs have shone a light-weight on the continuing existence of contemporary slavery in London. This morning (Tuesday, February 23), officers from the Met... Read more »
William Dillwyn, a co-ordinator of the British abolitionist and anti-slavery campaign, was born in Pennsylvania in 1743 and lived in Walthamstow (Blackhorse Lane) from 1777 until his death in 1824. A devout... Read more »
