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Scipio Africanus (c.1702-1720): St Mary the Virgin, Church Close, Henbury, Bristol BS10 7QF Almost the sum total of our knowledge of Scipio Africanus can be found on his elaborate memorial. He had been a servant to Charles William Howard, the 7th Earl of Suffolk and Bindon (an earlier restoration had…
Remi and researcher Jill Sudbury are attempting to catalogue all of the slave graves in the UK, an important record of black prescence in Britain before the abolition. And you can help!
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Why did Remi set out to write the Reap the Forgotten Harvest trilogy? This account details over two years research on the English slave trade across West Africa, the Caribbean and the UK.
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The desire to subjugate others has a long and ignoble history. To blithely say ‘thus it ever was’ merely serves to perpetuate suffering with the knowledge that it will cause suffering. History’s broad vistas, viewed through the crystalline lens of hindsight, teach us is that it rarely works out well for the coloniser either…
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