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As part of the GET CONNECTED project the YSN team visited Hackney Museum to explore an exhibition to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Showing the background and impact of the slave trade on our communities and the efforts of the local Stoke Newington abolitionists.
A thought provoking exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the end of the slave trade in Britain has opened at Hackney museum. It was London’s only local authority museum to hold an exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of Britain’s abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
The exhibition explores the background to slavery, the abolition movement, and the impact of slavery on Hackney’s communities. Visitors find out more about where slaves were taken from, the suffering they endured, the economy built upon trading and the plantations slaves were forced to work, slave rebellions, and those who fought to outlaw slavery.
From around 1750 to 1850, Hackney was a hotbed of radical thinking and meeting places for those opposing enslavement. Many of the key Abolitionists hailed from the borough. Today’s Hackney community has been integral to the development of ‘Abolition 07’ and local people were consulted to find out what they wanted from the exhibition.
The transatlantic slave trade lasted for more than 300 years, from the early 1500s until abolition. Between 10 and 12 million Africans were forcibly taken to the Americas and West Indies, with merchants in London and other British ports making a fortune from the trade.
The YSN team want to say a massive thank you for all the young people who took part and Cherl Bowen for donating her valuable time to be interviewed.
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Olaudah Equiano was one of the most famous abolitionists ever. Born in Nigeria in 1745 but enslaved as a young man, Olaudah Equiano bought his freedom and went on to spend the rest of his life fighting for an end to the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. It not only portrayed the inhumanity of the slave trade, it also portrayed the humanity of the African slaves. He died in London in 1797.
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