Bruce Castle Museum remembers the slave trade

From the Council website:
A new work by visual orator and artist Akosua Bambara was unveiled at Bruce Castle Museum last week, commemorating the UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, 23 August.

The work, inspired by Haringey's heritage of settlement from the Caribbean and the borough's connections with the slave trade and the Abolition Movement, was commissioned by the Friends of Bruce Castle.


Memorabilia of the slave trade and its abolition are also on display at the museum, including a piece of slave collar recovered from Ghana, where many captured Africans began their enforced journeys to America and the Caribbean.

Akosua Bambara, Cllr Reith, and visitors at the exhibitionThe artwork was unveiled by Claudius Fanusie, of the Haringey University of the Third Age, and the event also included a poem read by Brenda La Rose, of the Friends of Bruce Castle, and a two minute silence remembering the victims of the slave trade.

Cllr Dhiren Basu, Haringey cabinet member for leisure, culture and lifelong learning, said:

"This is a great addition to our collection. Haringey has strong connections with slavery and the fight for its abolition, and Bruce Castle Museum is a fantastic resource for everyone interested in the history of this period."

The permanent display and the new work will support work in Haringey schools during the coming school year, when the study of the slave trade and its abolition is included in the National Curriculum for the first time.

23 August is the anniversary of the uprising in Haiti from 1791, when French and British colonial forces were overthrown by former enslaved Africans led by Toussaint L'Ouverture

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