slavery

• News / Bristol cathedral

  Formerly enslaved man memorialised at Bristol Cathedral

  John Isaac was born into chattel slavery on a plantation owned by a Bristol businessman

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• Features / slavery

  Almost 100 Bristolians received compensation after abolition of slavery

  A new exhibition at Ashton Court shines a light on reparations injustice

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• News / slavery

  Bristol could get museum ‘chronicling history, lives and futures of those affected by enslavement’

  African Heritage Communities will also be commemorated in "permanent and impactful installations"

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• News / slavery

  Report reveals Merchant Venturers’ connections to slave trafficking

  242,332 enslaved people were trafficked on voyages funded by Merchant Venturers

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• Features / University of Bristol

  ‘It’s really, really important we get this right’

  Dr Richard Stone on why Bristol University's removal of the dolphin emblem doesn't go far enough

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• News / bristol university

  Bristol Uni building names with ties to slave trade to be kept

  "We must tell our history in an honest, open and transparent way," said vice chancellor Evelyn Welch

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• News / Colston

  New evidence unearthed into Bristol’s early involvement in slave trade

  It suggests Thomas Colston played a role in the trade decades before his relative, Edward

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• Theatre / slavery

  Exhibition shows how Bristol school children deal with statue of slave trader 

  'A Monumental Task' aims to "put the debate in young people's hands"

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