A one-day workshop at the Council House, Bristol Saturday 27th November 2010 10:30am–5:00pm

This workshop examines the dispersal of compensation money paid to slave-owners following the abolition of slavery in 1833 and explores the ways in which the money was used by beneficiaries in the South West and South Wales as it shaped economic, social, cultural and political life over the next fifty years.

Speakers include:
Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Nick Draper (UCL) – Legacies of British slave-ownership
Dr Roiyah Saltus (University of Glamorgan, Vice Chair Butetown History & Arts Centre) – The black presence in South Wales
Lucy MacKeith (Independent historian) – Local Black History – a beginning in Devon
Ruth Hecht (Bristol family historian) -

Personal and political impacts of family slave-ownership
To book a place or for further information  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/workshops or contact lbs@ucl.ac.uk

BRHG have release two new pamphlets:

#12 Tolpuddle And Swing – The Flea And The Elephant and #13Bristol’s White Slave Trade – Indentured and Enforced Labour In The 17th Century.