Parliament and the British Slave Trade: Audio
Listen to poetry from abolitionists, extracts from the letters of the Black abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, and dramatisations exploring the morality of slavery.
Explore poetry
Listen to emotive poems by abolition supporters
Dramatisations and letters
Listen to scenes evoking the slavery debate around 1800, and extracts from letters by Olaudah Equiano.
Examining the 1807 Act
Actor and political commentator Kwame Kwei-Armah and archivist David Prior look at the 1807 Act
Music in remembrance
In 2007 on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, musicians performed a piece entitled 'The Woman Who Refused To Dance'
A guide to the exhibition
Poet Rommi Smith, writer in residence to the British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People exhibition, describes her reaction to the exhibition