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Merchant City Festival 2016: Slavery and Abolition Saturday 30 July, 2016 City Halls

The Merchant City: Slavery and Abolition
Saturday 30 July, 2016
City Halls
12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m.

Stephen Mullen leads a guided tour through Glasgow’s mercantile past and connections with slavery and abolitionism.

Stephen Mullen leads a guided tour through Glasgow’s mercantile past and examines the connections between tobacco, sugar, slavery and abolitionism. This tour reveals the city’s colonial history through the built heritage such as merchants’ counting houses, Palladian mansions and burial grounds. Glasgow’s powerful connections with the abolition movement is also explored, including the philosophical origins of the movement at the University of Glasgow and the local organisations who campaigned to end the slave trade and plantation slavery in the nineteenth century.

£2

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City Halls

Candleriggs
Glasgow
G1 1NQ

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