Open House Festival

Slavery and the City

walk/tour

1 Cheapside, EC2V 6AA

We will explore sites and institutions with direct links to the history of slavery and hear why the apologies were made in 2020, whilst wandering within the story packed streets and alleyways of the Square Mile.

Getting there

Tube

St. Paul's

Access

Accessibility notes

Not suitable for those with limited mobility.

About

Walk Details

‘It is not lawful to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood’. These are the words of abolitionist John Newton as he preached from St Mary Woolnoth in the City in 1788. But the abolitionist’s tale is only one side of the coin in the City’s involvement in the horrors of the slave trade.

We will explore sites and institutions with direct links to this history and hear why the apologies were made in the summer of 2020, whilst wandering within the story packed streets and alleyways of the Square Mile.

Come and join in the discussion of our relationship to history and the legacy of the past to the present.

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