Slavery

A selection of images based on the theme of Slavery and the Abolition movement in England; including memorials, monuments, buildings etc. Check out our Teaching Activity What can the inscription on a grave tell us about attitudes to black people? and our Teachers' Notes: Slavery related websites.

Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr David Morphew Gravestone of a Slave, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire Gravestone of a slave called Myrtilla in the graveyard of St Lawrence's Church, Oxhill Warwickshire. Myrtilla belonged to Thomas Beauchamp of Nevis and died in 1705.	Add to My Favourites Ms Pamela Jackson LRPS. Source English Heritage.NMR Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside Liverpool Town Hall one of the many fine buildings that displayed the wealth of the city; much of it derived from the slave trade.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr John Leaver Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, Stroud, Gloucestershire Pagenhill Archway Memorial was erected in Stroud, Gloucestershire to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies, August lst 1834 and is the oldest memorial to abolition.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Building connected to the life of a slave, Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, was the seat of the Earls of Essex who owned a family or series of slaves named Donay
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Lorna Freeman Building connected with the life of a slave, Lancashire A house near Sunderland Point, Lancashire. A negro slave called Sambo, who is buried nearby, is said to have died here in 1736. Very little is known about Sambo's life.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Image of a Slave ship? This piece of embroidery shows 2 scenes. One shows what could be a slave ship. The other is the inside a house or possibly a church. It is in the style of a sampler. Samplers were usually worked by girls learning to sew. They sometimes included letters of the alphabet but could also show events and scenes from a person's life. The story behind this embroidery is a mystery.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS Gravestone of a Slave, Scipio Africanus, Bristol Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history. Read inscription	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Slave Trade Port, Sugar Silo, Huskisson Dock, Liverpool Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo, Huskinsson Dock, Liverpool. Sugar cane cut by slaves was imported and refined here. Merchants and manufacturers made huge profits.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Slave Trade Port, Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside Warehouses used to store goods including products of the Slave Trade such as sugar and tobacco, Albert Dock, Liverpool	Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Slave Trade Port, Ringers Tobacco Factory, Bristol Ringers Tobacco Factory. The manufacture of tobacco became an important trade in Bristol. Tobacco was imported from the West Indies and America, where it was cut by slaves.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr Keith Hurst Church built with profits from the Slave Trade, Hertfordshire New St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, was built by Sir Lionel Lyde in 1778. He partly demolished the original church using wealth derived from the slave trade to fund the project	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/N.L. Stones Building connected to Slave Trade, Bristol Henry Bright, a Merchant Venturer and slave trader lived at 29 Queen Square, Bristol with his black servant called Bristol. He was also a Mayor of Bristol.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr Peter D. Dewar Memorial to an Abolitionist, Cambridgeshire Memorial to Thomas Clarkson , Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Clarkson was a leading abolitionist who travelled the country investigating the conditions on slave ships, often at great personal risk.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR/Mr Brian Callan LRPS Memorial to an Abolitionist, Kingston upon Hull Memorial to William Wilberforce, Kingston upon Hull. Wilberforce was the leader of the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Memorial to an Abolitionist, Parliament Square, London Buxton Memorial Drinking fountain, Parliament Square, London. Thomas Fowell Buxton continued the campaign in Parliament started by Wilberforce. He was a Quaker and leading social reformer	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Memorial to Abolitionist, Westminster, London Monument to Charles James Fox in Westminster Abbey. Fox was an influential MP who died whilst campaigning for the abolition of slavery.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Ship used to enforce anti-slavery laws HMS Buzzard in the Thames. The ship was launched in 1849 and for a time was on duty off the coast of America enforcing anti-slavery laws.