Stephen Lushington
Doctor of Civil Law, judge, MP, supporter of the campaigns for the abolition of slavery and of capital punishment. Born Berkshire. Died Surrey.
Doctor of Civil Law, judge, MP, supporter of the campaigns for the abolition of slavery and of capital punishment. Born Berkshire. Died Surrey.
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Aged 16 emigrated to Jamaica and saw slavery first hand as a slave overseer on a sugar plantation. Returned to England 1789. Sister Jean’s husband, Thomas Ba...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa, Jamaica, Scotland
A Bengali Muslim, he joined the East India Company aged 11, where he served as a solder and fought a few times. Resigned in 1782 and two years later with his friend from the army Captain Godfrey Ev...
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and International elder statesman. Born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei, South Africa. Gaoled 5th August 1962, sentenced to life imprisonment 12...
Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa
At 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill. Created and owned for 24 years by Crichlow. It was a centre for political and social activism within the African and Caribbean culture. Visitors included: Jim...
Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Race Issues
From the Trust's website: "We want British society to become fairer, more inclusive and more harmonious. We believe that overcoming exclusion and increasing participation by promoting equality of b...
Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Priscilla Bright McLaren was an activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement i...
Merchant. Born in Dumfries. He grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Jamaica, and moved to London in 1779. He headed a group of powerful businessmen, who planned and built the West India Dock...
Infantry officer, naval officer and politician. Born Northamptonshire. Patron and good friend to Pepys. Fought on behalf of Cromwell's Commonwealth first in the army and then as a General at Sea. ...
Physician. Born Harold Arundel Moody at 8 Rum Lane, Kingston, Jamaica. Although well qualified, he was refused a post at King's College Hospital because of his colour, but became a medical superint...