Events
2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
Calendar of Events
| Month | Date | Event | Contact |
| April-Oct. | Roscoe Lectures | www.livjm.ac.uk | |
| April | 23rd | Breaking the Chains Exhibitrion - British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.Bristol | |
| May | CRE: William Wilberforce's famous Abolitionist speech to parliament re-enacted, central London | www.cre.gov.uk | |
| May-Oct. | National Trust: "Sugar and Slavery-the Penrhyn Connections" exhibition, Penrhyn Castle | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | |
| May-Dec. | CyMAL, National Library of Wales and National Museum of Wales: Touring Exhibition on Slavery | www.museumwales.ac.uk | |
| May | 16th-19th | Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation:"Slavery Unfinished Business" conference | www.hull.ac.uk |
| May - Sept. | Parliament: "The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People" exhibition | www.parliament.uk/slavetrade | |
| May- Sept. | English Heritage: "Mansfield,Slavery and Justice" exhibition, Kenwood House |
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| May | 27th | Greater London Authority: Africa Day Reception (City Hall) and Festival (Trafalgar Square) | www.london.gov.uk |
| Africa Oye Music Festival, Sefton Park, Liverpool | www.africaoye.com | ||
| June - July | March of the Abolitionists: The Sankofa Walk(linking London, Bristol and Liverpool) | www.lifelineexpedition.co.uk | |
| August | 23rd | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO): International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. |
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| August | 23rd | National Museums Liverpool: Public opening of the International Slavery Museum |
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| August | 27th | August Bank Hol;iday :London Notting Hill Carnival |
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