In this 200th anniversary of abolition, today's UK commemorations for the International Slavery Remembrance Day are led by the new International Slavery Museum in the Albert Dock in LIverpool - a city built on the trade. Only a few yards away are the dry-docks where slave ships were repaired and fitted out. The Merseyside Maritime Museum has built considerable expertise in this area, and now flowers into this specialist museum.
Elsewhere the National Maritime Museum in London has a programme of events; a good piece yesterday by Rachel Campbell Johnston reminds us of other museums; and personally I would recommend getting in the DVD of the marvellous political film "Amazing Grace" about Wilberforce and Olaudah Equiano the slave campaigner and John Newton the remorseful slave-ship captain who wrote Amazing Grace. You may remember the rendering of it on Youtube here a few weeks ago...And here is Equiano himself...
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