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Slavery Connection - Wales

Although ports such as Liverpool and Bristol are more closely associated with the slave trade, Welsh history was in many ways made from the proceeds of forced labour.

 
  • Who were Welsh abolitionists?
  • Nathaniel Wells: Welsh slave owner and the richest black man in Britain.
  • How did Wales profit?

Sir Foster Cunliffe

 

A member of Wrexham's elite who lived off the proceeds of his family's fortune - made in the slave trade.

Sir Foster Cunliffe

Welsh abolitionists

 

By the end of the 18th century many were campaigning for slavery's end.

Detail from Slaves fell The Ripe Sugar by painter William Clark
 

Richard Pennant

 

Slave owner, anti-abolitionist MP and Irish peer who owned slave plantations in Jamaica.

Detail from Slaves on the West Coast of Africa painted by Francois auguste Baird
 

Nathaniel Wells

 

The son of a Cardiff-born slave owner who became the richest black man in Britain.

Piercefield Park - photo courtesy of St Arvan's Church
 

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