You are welcome to join us for any of the following events:
Black History Month events supported by the Bristol Black Archives Partnership and Bristol Record Office
Thursday 4 October 2007
7 - 8.45 pm
Satan's Kingdom: Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Pip Jones, author of "Satan's Kingdom: Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" and co-author with Rita Youseph of "The Black Population of Bristol in the 18th Century" discusses Bristol's role in African Slavery from 1698 to 1807 and the Africans who lived and worked in Bristol from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Free event at Bristol Record Office. Entry by ticket only in advance from the Record Office.
Saturday 6 October
1.30pm-5pm
Bristol Black Archives Partnership 'My Legacy" event
Malcolm X Centre, 141 City Road, St Paul's, Bristol, BS2 8YH
Hear experts share their experience of African-Caribbean family history and learn how you can try to trace your own roots. Speakers include DJ Lioness, Dr Mike Phillips (co-author of Windrush, written with his brother Trevor Phillips), Paul Crooks (author of 'Ancestors' and Black genealogy expert on the BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?") and many others. There will be an opportunity to record your own history for future generations.
Free entry - just drop in on the day!
Thursday 11 October 2007
7 - 8.45 pm
Clarkson
Gordon Young introduces a viewing and discussion of this film made by Bristol Film and Video Society to commemorate the parliamentary abolition of the slave trade.
Set in Bristol in 1787, Clarkson is an historical drama based on actual
events and characters. It features Thomas Clarkson, an unsung hero in the
campaign to abolish slave trading. Although William Wilberforce has won
public acclaim for finally outlawing the slave trade, it was Thomas Clarkson
who provided him with much of the data that he presented to Parliament.
Clarkson's research began in Bristol, interviewing seamen in order to get
details of conditions aboard slave ships and it his time in the city that the film concentrates on.
Free event at Bristol Record Office. Entry by ticket only in advance from the Record Office.
Exhibition:
Tuesday 2 October - Friday 28 December
The Bristol Black Archives Partnership
Opening in Black History Month, this exhibition will show the discoveries made by the project during the year that we commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. The Black presence in Bristol past and present will be celebrated through archives and photographs, many having come from the African-Caribbean community itself. There will also be documents relating to the Transatlantic slave trade itself.
Exhibitions in the Record Office (9 - 5 every week-day (first two Thursdays of the month until 7pm; first two Saturdays of the month 10am - 4pm)
Please call 0117 922 4224 or email [log in to unmask] for free tickets to the above events.
Karen Garvey
Project Manager (Bristol Black Archives Partnership)
Outreach, Inclusion & Learning Archivist
Bristol Record Office
B Bond Warehouse
Smeaton Road
Bristol BS1 6XN
Tel: (0117) 922 4239
Fax: (0117) 922 4236
www.bristol-city.gov.uk/recordoffice
Online catalogue: archives.bristol-city.gov.uk
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