April 15th 2025
For the April meeting, our humanists group welcomed Bernard North who gave a thought-provoking talk on the history of slavery. With thanks to our friends at the Ludlow Probus Club for the summary.
Bernard commenced by advising that many of our national institutions had connections to slavery – including the Bank of England. Britain’s prosperity today was founded on profits from slavery. We tend to concentrate on the British involvement in transporting slaves from West Africa to the United States. But slavery and slave trading was global, going back thousands of years.
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