AbolitionYou are in: Dorset > Abolition  Baptist minister Mark Warner tells BBC Dorset how he moves on from his family's colonial past.  Olga Pinder shares her memories of working at the Drax Hall Estate sugar plantation in 1950s.  Listen to our unique music project to mark the bi-centennial of the abolition of the Slave Trade.  Thomas Lewis Johnson spent 28 years as a slave in Virginia before settling in Bournemouth.  British-Ghanaian poet and historian Louisa Adjoa Parker describes Dorset's slave trade past.  Descended from slave owners, Dorset's Bill Drayton explains why he works towards reconciliation.  Find out more about the abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago, from BBC History...  See more from the BBC's comprehensive online Abolition section. You are in: Dorset > Abolition |
