Museums of slavery and the slave trade
Slavery museums in Ghana
Slavery museums and libraries in Britain
- Reply-To: Steven Mintz smintz@UH.EDU
Sender: "The history of slavery, the slave trade, abolition and emancipation" SLAVERY@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Subject: Re: Slavery museums in Britain
- From: antislavery@gn.apc.org past information from Jeff Howarth of Anti-Slavery:
- The Merseyside Maritime Museum opened a permanent gallery on the trranslantic slave trade www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/
- Bristol City Museum had an exhibition entitled "A Respectable Trade? Bristol and Transatlantic slavery" from March 1999 to September 1999. discovering bristol.org.uk
- Wilberforce House museum has a permanent exhibition on the abolitionist William Wilberforce and the slave trade. www.wilberforcecentral.org/wfc/
- Then there are many libraries with collections of literature on the subject including:
The Society of Friends, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ. www.quaker.org.uk/library/
Dr Williams Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H OAG www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/
Liverpool Central Library , Liverpool, L3 8EW re-opens Spring 2013 liverpool.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/central.aspx
Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Museum Square, Wisbech PE13 1EH www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk
Our own at Anti-Slavery The Stableyard Broomgrove Road London SW9 9TL and our digitised documentation
http://www.recoveredhistories.org