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Slavery Connection - Lincolnshire Born in Lincolnshire, Peter Peckard was vice chancellor of Magdalen College, Cambridge. He set the essay that inspired Thomas Clarkson to campaign against the slave trade.
	Yokes and chains: the March of the Abolitionists reaches Lincolnshire. How will Lincolnshire remember? Methodist and freedom fighter: who was John Welsey?
	Thomas Thistlewood 1721 - 1786
			Thomas Thislewood from Lincolnshire went to Jamaica and became a slave master.






	Freedom 2007
			The African and Caribbean support group mark the abolition of the slave trade.






	Black Atlas will haunt you.
			Human nature is to live and love. Tell that to the actors in Black Atlas.






	ACSG abolition events
			The local African Carribean support group will marking the end of the abolition of the slave trade.







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Slavery Connection - Lincolnshire