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Liverpool Museum To Host Debate On Slave Trade Reparations
By 24 Hour Museum Staff
09/10/2007
© Richard Moss/24 Hour Museum
The controversial subject of reparations for the effects of the transatlantic slave trade will be debated at an event at Liverpool’s Merseyside Maritime Museum on October 11 2007.
David Fleming, director of National Museums Liverpool, will chair the debate, which will discuss the damage done to Africa and its people, including the African diaspora, during the slave trade and colonisation.
It will include presentations from Esther Stanford, a community law educational practitioner consultant and scholar activist in jurisprudence, and Dorothy Kuya, trustee of National Museums Liverpool and member of the International Slavery Museum council.
Stanford will provide an overview of the International Movement for Afrikan Reparations giving examples of what a post-reparations world could look like. She will also explore the various legal and policy approaches to reparations and update the audience on the progress that is being made in the UK and internationally.
Kuya will talk about the African Reparation Movement UK and its role in creating a movement around the reparations issue and will discuss the relevance of the first pan-African conference, held in Abuja, Nigeria in 1993.
She will also look at the evidence that British ships continued to trade in kidnapped Africans long after the Abolition Act of 1807.
The event takes place between 5.30pm and 8pm, as part of Black History Month. Places are free but should be reserved in advance by calling Lizzy Rodgers on 0151 478 4543.
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ, Merseyside, England
T: 0151 478 4499
Open: Mon-Sun 1000-1700
Closed: 24 December, from 2pm
25, 26 December
1 January
National Museums Liverpool
William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN, Merseyside, England
T: 0151 478 4597
International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
3rd Floor of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, L3 4AQ, Liverpool, England
Open: Open daily 10am-5pm.
Closed: Closed from 2pm on 24 December and all day on 25 and 26 December and 1 January.
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