Hi Arthur
Went to their website to find where to book, but couldn't find it.
How should I book one place or can you do it?
all the best
Max
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> From: "arthur torrington" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: ROTHSCHILD & FRESHFIELDS
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:16:07 +0000
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> BANKERS & SLAVERY: ROTHSCHILD & FRESHFIELDS
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> SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER at MUSEUM IN DOCKLANDS, West India Quay, London, E14 4AL,
> from 2pm to 4pm: ADMISSION FREE
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> Presentation by Dr NICK DRAPER (UCL)
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> Paper trail loosens shackles on hidden past
> By Carola Hoyos
> Published: June 26 2009 23:32 | Last updated: June 26 2009 23:32
> Financial Times
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> Stashed in the National Archives in London’s leafy suburb of Kew
> are hundreds of boxes of documents marked T71. Each of the
> sepia-coloured sheets inside them holds handwritten details of
> estates and slaves, including how much each “negro” was worth,
> creating the most extensive known paper trail of slave owners in
> the UK’s former colonies.
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> For 170 years, the papers remained unexamined, allowing companies,
> families and institutions that knowingly profited from slavery to
> conceal their links to the trade and keeping those who were unaware
> of them in ignorance.
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> That changed when Nick Draper quit his banking job at JPMorgan and
> began a doctorate at University College London. Among the boxes he
> sifted through was T71/1222, which contained a claim for £3,000 in
> compensation made by Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother Baron
> James de Rothschild, scions of the banking dynasty....
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