/cumbria/abolition/index.xml Slavery and its abolition - the Cumbrian connection BBC en-GB 2008-05-19T13:15:32+00:00 Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2007/02/14/videonation_el_mina_video_feature.shtml Mention the word ‘Elmina’, and you’ll see Sonia Thakker flinch, anger furrowing her brow ... 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BBC 2008-05-01T16:05:19+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='slavery';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zbGF2ZXJ5';parent='social structure' label='sugar';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zdWdhcg==';parent='plant products' label='cumbria';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY3VtYnJpYQ==';parent='north west england' label='barbados';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vYmFyYmFkb3M=';parent='caribbean' http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/image_galleries/slavery_cumbria_barbados_gallery.shtml Take a tour of the island to find out more about its links with Cumbria and with the slave trade. BBC 2008-05-01T16:09:02+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='slavery';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zbGF2ZXJ5';parent='social structure' label='cumbria';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY3VtYnJpYQ==';parent='north west england' label='barbados';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vYmFyYmFkb3M=';parent='caribbean' http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2007/03/09/slavery_abolitionists_cumbria_2007_feature.shtml The slave trade was abolished in 1807 but the fight didn't end there. BBC 2008-05-01T16:05:47+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='slavery';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zbGF2ZXJ5';parent='social structure' label='cumbria';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY3VtYnJpYQ==';parent='north west england' http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2007/01/27/slavery_slaves_2007_feature.shtml Cumbria is an increasingly diverse county. But black people did live here hundreds of years ago. BBC 2008-05-01T16:06:04+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='slavery';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zbGF2ZXJ5';parent='social structure' label='cumbria';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY3VtYnJpYQ==';parent='north west england' label='caribbean';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY2FyaWJiZWFu';parent='americas and the caribbean' http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2006/05/08/diversity_slavery_feature.shtml Two hundred years on and Whitehaven looks set to apologise for its involvement in the slave trade... 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BBC 2008-05-01T16:05:07+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='daffodils';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/QkJDL0MvZGFmZm9kaWxz';parent='flowering plants' label='cumbria';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/location/bG9jYXRpb24vY3VtYnJpYQ==';parent='north west england' http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2007/02/20/slavery_monologues_2007_feature.shtml How fiction can fill the gaps in the historical records. BBC 2008-05-01T16:04:52+00:00 en-GB Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation label='slavery';guid='http://api.bbc.co.uk/metadata/cmc/subject/c3ViamVjdC9zbGF2ZXJ5';parent='social structure'