To commemorate 200 years since the slave trade was outlawed in the British Empire, Eastside is working with young people as they explore the importance of this bicentenary within the context of British and London history and the impact on their own family history.
Trip to International Slavery Museum in Liverpool
On Saturday 24th November, Eastside's Road to Freedom project visited the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, hosted in Liverpool's Maritime Museum on the docks. The group had to get up very early in order to get to the museum by 12. Everyone was very impressed with the exhibition, which extensively documents and presents Slavery and the Abolitionist movement through primary source objects, video, images, models and contemporary design display. It goes as far as representing contemporary slavery in its modern day form. The Exhibition is large and detailed, providing broader context to the trade, life in Africa before Trans-Atlantic Slavery, and well represents the differing perspectives of those involved in the Slave trade and it's abolition. It is both informative and moving, and highly recommended by all on the trip.
