(Cancelled) Radical History Group – Mr Douglass Comes to Town

(Cancelled) Radical History Group:
Mr Douglass Comes to Town

Radical History Group – Mr Douglass Comes to Town

Mark Steeds

The talk is about some of Bristol’s unsung Abolitionists of the mid-19th Century and features the families of Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Carpenter and Mary Estlin.

From emancipation throughout the British empire in the 1830s, and on to the US Civil War in the 1860s, the talk will explore in particular their links to African American Abolitionists Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and the Craft husband and wife team.

This historic episode is taken from the Bristol Radical History Group book From Wulfstan to Colston – severing the sinews of slavery in Bristol.

The accompanying picture is an 1840s montage showing Frederick Douglass outside of the Victoria Rooms in Clifton.

*This has been cancelled.