Explore the stories of the world's greatest city and uncover the hidden treasures of our collections.
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 the first Black person to vote in Britain
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
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