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Slavery Connection - Leicester Rothley Court Hotel is where the charter for the abolition of the slave trade was written 200 years ago.
	Am I not a woman and a sister? Leicester’s female campaigners. Leicester remembers the life of the first freed African slave. Edward Juba: Leicester’s first black Freeman of the City.
	Slave Trade Abolition Project
			Rothley Court was the setting for a day of drama & debate by local school children. Watch the video!






	BBC Leicester: Abolition
			Find out what we're doing to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.






	Christianity and the Trade
			If Christianity was thrust on slaves by plantation owners, why do black people still embrace it now?






	Susanna Watts
			Find out about the woman who locked horns with Wilberforce and started a fair trade campaign!







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