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Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021: The Atlantic slave trade lasted for over 400 years, but freedom lasts forever. Slavery was commonly known as a condition in which someone owns and controls a human being. This meant that the law considered such persons as property and deprived of the rights that are usually accorded to free persons. Historians put it that on the 25th of March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books and became law. However, Slave Trade continued until 1811 and effectively ended in 1787. Historians have given us many reasons a...

The Atlantic slave trade lasted for years (over 400 years), but freedom lasts forever. Slavery was commonly known as a condition in which another owned one human being. This meant that the law considered such persons as property, and deprived of the rights that is usually accorded to free persons. Historians put it that on the 25 th March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books and became law. However, the Slave Trade continued until 1811 and it effectively ended in 1787. Historians have given us many reasons and factors that led to the abolition of the trade; i...

Bristol Old Vic Premiere THE MEANING OF ZONG To Be Broadcast as BBC Radio Play This Month Giles Terera will star as Olaudah Equiano, alongside Samuel West as Granville Sharpe.by BWW News Desk As the UK approaches the anniversary of theatre closures due to lockdown, Bristol Old Vic partners with the BBC Lights Up season celebrating British Theatre and new writing, with a radio broadcast of Olivier Award-winner Giles Terera's debut play, The Meaning of Zong. Originally developed by Bristol Old Vic and The National Theatre, it was first presented as a rehearsed reading by Bristol Old Vic in ...

By Stephen Ayers William Dillwyn painted in 1815 at the age of 72 by Charles Robert Leslie. Credit: Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain. 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 Quaker, William was taught at school by Anthony Benezet, who started the campaign in North America to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. He grew up to become Benezet’s c...