Heritage Trails

Heritage Walking Trails: “500 Years of Black London” and “Black Gold city of London”

Guides by S.I. Martin

24th November 2007

Writer and historian Steve Martin took participants on a journey through a lesser known London, where African trumpeters, diarists, boxers, military men and conspirators lived and worked alongside white Londoners. Steve Martin’s hands on history lesson brought to life a city that had been changed by the slave trade and those who inhabited it – from Equiano and the Blackbirds of St Giles, to Sancho and the Gordon Riots of 1780

Black Gold City of London was an introduction to some of the key players who financed the transatlantic slave trade – from the West India Merchants to the Bank of England. The participants got an insight of how the profits of slavery transformed London into the financial centre of the world in the 18 th century.

Keywords

• How to recognise the buildings and areas of the City of London borne out of slavery
• How the City of London provided the money for the “slaving voyages” and how other institutions in the city insured the cargo and traded the plantation goods

Suggestions

• Time lines

Comments

• Excellent
• Brilliant & very useful

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