A public meeting and book launch
Speakers:
Luke Daniels, President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity on Reparations for African Enslavement
Peter Ashan, Author of Freedom Walks on the legacy of enslavement, continuing racism and current rise of fascism.
The abolition of the traffic in enslaved Africans came as a result of a mass movement in Britain and resistance in the Caribbean. Two recently published books reflect these different aspects of the struggle for abolition.
Slave-trade Abolition and Leytonstone House: the Sansoms, the Buxtons and Black History
by Claire Weiss, Peter Ashan and Geoff Nichols
and
Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804
by Mary Turner
Thursday 27th March at 7pm
William Morris Hall, 6-8 Greenleaf Road, Walthamstow E17 6QQ
Just a short walk from Walthamstow Central Station, Victoria Line
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