2007 marked the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Many museums and community groups around the country organised and took part in commemorative events.
Supported by generous funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Enfield Museum Service and Enfield Racial Equality Council(EREC) undertook a joint project to develop a major exhibition, together with the British Museum.
The 'Enfield and the Transatlantic Slave Trade' Exhibition, opened on Slavery Remembrance Day - 23rd August 2007. The exhibition was displayed at Forty Hall until Sunday 28th October 2007, then toured to Edmonton Green Library, Gallery Fore and Thomas Hardy House.
Although the exhibition's tour is now over, panels from this exhibition are now available for schools and community groups and halls to borrow. Find out more about borrowing exhibition panels from Enfield Museum Service.
A free copy of the book based on the exhibition will be sent to all schools in the London Borough of Enfield in autumn 2009. It is also available to purchase at a cost of £4.99.
To purchase a copy by post, send a cheque made payable to the 'London Borough of Enfield' for £5.49 (purchase price plus £0.50 post & packing) to Enfield Museum Service, Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield, EN2 9HA.
During the exhibition events were organised for schools and for families during autumn half term. Visitors to the museum at weekends were able to enjoy living history days and meet Olaudah Equiano and William Wilberforce in the exhibition explaining their role in Abolition.
As a result of the sessions that were developed for schools, a new loan box, 'Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade', was created which can now be borrowed as part of our loan box scheme. Together with the loan box you can download a teachers resource for KS2 and KS3. Pictures of the objects in the box and images from the book which accompanied the exhibition can also be downloaded onto a white board or printed off for use in the classroom. The images from the book are also available in the loan box.
Image courtesy of 'Sands of Time Consultancy'.
