Archive: AbolitionYou are in: Cumbria > Abolition  Mention the word ‘Elmina’, and you’ll see Sonia Thakker flinch, anger furrowing her brow ... Slavery and its abolition - the Cumbrian connection. From Whitehaven on Cumbria's west coast to the sunny shores of Barbados, we find out just how involved Cumbrians were in the slave trade and the fight to abolish it ...  A white Cumbrian farmer who found out that he had a black slave ancestor.  The men who made lots of money from the slave trade - the merchants and the plantation owners.  How two prominent families created a link between Cumbria, Barbados and the slave trade.  Take a tour of the island to find out more about its links with Cumbria and with the slave trade.  The slave trade was abolished in 1807 but the fight didn't end there.  Cumbria is an increasingly diverse county. But black people did live here hundreds of years ago.  Two hundred years on and Whitehaven looks set to apologise for its involvement in the slave trade...  Find out the connection between abolition and the famous daffodils poem.  How fiction can fill the gaps in the historical records. You are in: Cumbria > Abolition |
