Gloucestershire/Worcestershire and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Join us for an introduction to the nature of the slave trade from a British point of view and how it developed as the backbone of our economy. This talk focusses on the local effect, the estates in the shires based on plantation income, how the money reached down to the lowest members of society, and where the opposition to the slave trade came from. Much of the story is told through the voices of those who were there at the time.