Join author and historian Mark Steeds from the Bristol Radical History Group on an eye-opening evening walk tracing Bristol’s involvement in the Slave Trade: Tuesday, 2 June, at 6.15pm.
As well as helping to perpetuate the Slave Trade, the city has been a hotbed of abolition, with anti-slavery campaigners from every walk of life.
This city centre walk explores Bristol’s thousand-year history of slavery and its abolition involving the city and its people, stopping at sites and monuments that tell the story.
Bristol Radical History Group was formed in 2006 with aims which include opening up some of the ‘hidden’ history of Bristol and the West Country to public scrutiny and challenging some commonly held ideas about historical events; and to approach this history from ‘below’ by examining the actions and perspectives of those involved rather an accepting establishment histories.
The walk starts at 6.15pm outside the front entrance of M Shed and ends at the vacant plinth in Bristol city centre. It will last around two hours and tickets cost £5. There are just 30 places available on this walk. Members will be invited by email to book a place.