Discovering ways region fought the slave trade
Tony Henderson reveals how needles and pins helped the searchers who looked for ways to end the slave trade
- North East families, communities, businesses and women in particular played vital role in successful anti-slavery campaigns
- Earl Grey, of Newcastle’s Monument fame, abolished slavery in British colonies in 1833
- Statue commissioned to mark escape from slavery in the US to North Shields by Mary Ann Macham
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