London stories

Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good

The former financial heart of the City

The Wapping drop-off point for wine, tobacco, spices and ivory between 1805 and 1968

A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans

Exploring histories of pain and exploitation in one English novelist’s writing desk

A vital narrative of enslavement that boosted the abolitionist movement

The appalling case of 130 enslaved Africans murdered for an insurance claim

After gaining his freedom, this 18th-century writer became one of the first Black voters in Britain

These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations