Legacies of British Slave-ownership - slave owners' addresses

[extra dry]

I ve lived in one of the villages which had housemothers slaves and others so three or four places nearby

 

[discokermit]

nearest to here is walsall. not surprising though as the people who owned the means of production round here generally didnt live here.

 

[equationgirl]

Not as many as I expected in Glasgow to be honest.

 

[StoneRoad]

No comment (as I'm from near Bristol, originally) ...

 

[Poot]

This is interesting but it should be remembered that since then a fair few have benefited from the framework that was established from exploiting people and slavery. They won't be listed because they didn't directly own slaves, especially after 1833. But that's not to say that they weren't exploiting people and carrying out nefarious 'employment' practices at home and abroad by any other name.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Lots of names in Lancaster but no surprise really as it was fourth biggest biggest slave trading port in England in the 18th century. Lots of Mayors of the city, aldermen, MP's etc. listed as receiving compensation payments after emancipation. A lot of Quakers in the city owned slaves.

The Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid (who I used to work with when at UCLan) has written on the subject:

Lancaster is 'a city in which traders became Abolitionists & in which Quakers owned slave ships. There are beautiful buildings designed by men involved in horrible deeds. Behind doors lie the hidden histories of almost invisible African people'.

Long after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade (1807) & long after the profits had been collected from the abolition of slavery in the British empire (1833), Lancaster & Lancastrians continued to profit from historical ties to slavery & plantation economies.

For example, Lancaster's C19th century industrial heyday of ‘Lino Kings’ was underpinned by slavery "windfalls" & by cotton imported from plantations in the Americas, a web of connections which can be traced through industrial & economic histories, & family inheritances.