Hibbert and Beckford produced pamphlets explaining why the slave trade was necessary. They argued that the economy of the British Empire was reliant on the slave trade and that it would collapse ...

This tension,between an empire of slavery and an empire of freedom ... The course explores how the British slave trade functioned both as political economy and as a system of everyday oppression, how ...

Britain’s oldest anti-slavery memorial, built in 1834 to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, has been repaired and restored.

We can all agree on the moral, physical and personal wrongs of slavery and wish that it had never occurred, whether in the British empire or anywhere ... navigation, trade, cultural and ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern ... who called it an 'underestimation' of the damage caused by the slave trade. A group of 15 Caribbean governments has ...

In 2007, to commemorate the British bicentenary of the abolition of ... We can contribute a unique angle to the dialogue on the transatlantic slave trade. We were founded within the context of empire, ...

Azuka was inspired to write the play after a visit to Cardiff's Llanrumney Hall where she first learnt about Wales' connection to the Atlantic slave trade. Azuka Oforka grew up in London but moved ...

The Ashanti Empire founded in 1670 occupied what is ... When it was not only about the slave trade, but about gold, power and the immense wealth of Africa. Watch the full documentary on BBC ...