Breaking the chains
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Another slave workers' uprising was led by Sam Sharpe who organised a peaceful strike across many estates in western Jamaica with the mistaken belief that emancipation had already been granted by the British Parliament. The strike caused two detailed Parliamentary Inquiries that contributed to the 1833 Abolition of Slavery across the British Empire.
The British Houses of Parliament campaign was primarily led by William Wilberforce, Lord Grenvill, Reverend Thomas Clarkson and Olaudah Equiano.
Calender of events
| Date | Event | Venue | Contact |
| 21 August | Lecture: The ideological origins of chattel slavery - Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University, USA | Merseyside Maritime Museum | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/ |
| 11 October | Debate: Reparations - Should financial payments be made to members of the African Diaspora who are descendants of enslaved Africans? | Merseyside Maritime Museum | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/ |
| 27 October | Exhibition: 'London, Sugar and Slavery' - London's involvement in transatlantic slavery and its legacy for the capital | Museum in Docklands | http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk |
CONTACT DETAILS
• UNISON's national race equalities officer is Pav Akhtar.
UNISON Black History Month
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: p.akhtar@unison.co.uk
• UNISON's national race equalities officer is Pav Akhtar.
UNISON Black History Month
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: p.akhtar@unison.co.uk
UNISON, 1 Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9AJ. Telephone: 0845 355 0845.
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