AbolitionYou are in: Hampshire > Abolition  BBC South and Portsmouth Naval Museum host a day of interactive activities on the Slave Trade.  Listen to our unique music project to mark the bi-centennial of the abolition of the Slave Trade.  Slam poets with something to say about slavery at a special event at Southampton's Orange Rooms.  The remarkable life story of Joseph Peterson unearthed by a pair of Portsmouth cousins.  For Donovan Farquharson from Southampton, the effects of slavery are still felt even in 2007.  Students at a Southampton school learn about their hometown connections with the Slave Trade.  The Royal Naval Museum hosts a special exhibition on the end of the slave trade 200 years ago.  Dr John Oldfield investigates Hampshire's local connections with the infamous Slave Trade.  Rice and sugar - foods we love, but both had strong local connections to the Slave Trade.  Journalist and Quaker Tony Stoller looks at his faith's involvement with the slavery abolition Act. You are in: Hampshire > Abolition |
