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Putting Abolition & Slavery Into Perspective

Ms Serwah highlights the African efforts that led to the abolition of the slave trade

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Putting Abolition & Slavery Into Perspective

Start Time: Thursday 1st November 2007.
06:30:PM
The Space, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF

Ms Serwah highlights the African efforts that led to the abolition of the slave trade

Title: Putting The Abolition & Slavery Into Perspective

Date/Time: Thursday Nov. 1 2007, 6.30-8.30pm

Venue: The Space, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF

(Willesden Green (Jubilee tube); buses 6, 52, 98, 206, 260, 266, 302, 460)

Cost: £Free but pre-book via info@btwsc.com subject line: booking for Putting The Abolition

BTWSC co-ordinator and NewAfricanPerspective contributor Ms Serwah leads this programme, which consists of a brief timeline of the trans-Atlantic slave trade followed by a presentation focused on putting the Abolition of the slave trade into perspective. The presentation will highlight the African resistance to slavery and the role of the likes of Queen Nzinga and Nana (Nanny) of the Maroons, and examine the role of abolitionists such as Ottobah Coguano, the Haiti revolution and Toussaint L’Ouverture, and the boycotts leading to the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

The audience will be reminded that the 1807 Act did not abolish slavery, and that the Abolition Slavery Act was not passed until 1833. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and discussion session, which will be interspersed by specially commissioned musical performance focused on the Abolition.

Produced by BTWSC in association with NewAfricanPerspective.blogspot.com and BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress. Part funded by Brent Black History/Brent Library.