Slavery Connection - Dorset

Many families in Dorset profited from the slave trade, but the county was also home to prominent abolitionists such as Thomas Foxwell Buxton who was president of the Anti-Slavery society.

Moving on from a colonial past

Baptist minister Mark Warner tells BBC Dorset how he moves on from his family's colonial past.

Life on the plantation

Olga Pinder shares her memories of working at the Drax Hall Estate sugar plantation in 1950s.

Amazing Grace

Listen to our unique music project to mark the bi-centennial of the abolition of the Slave Trade.

Bournemouth's freed slave

Thomas Lewis Johnson spent 28 years as a slave in Virginia before settling in Bournemouth.

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