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The Edinburgh Campus of Heriot-Watt University will be open on 19th May for the Exploration Weekend.  As part of this event Sir Geoff Palmer will be giving a talk on Scotland's role in the slave trade and abolition.  The talk is at 2pm in the Postgraduate Centre and is bookable through eventbrite  http://hwu-geoffpalmer.eventbrite.co.uk. 

The Museum will also be open from 10am to 4pm that day with the Edinburgh and Emancipation exhibition celebrating the role of Sir William Gibson-Craig of Riccarton in the final vote to abolish slavery in the West Indies in 1838.  The Museum is located on the ground floor of the library and due to building work is accessible from the lawn or the fire pond bridge.  For more information contact [log in to unmask] or 0131 451 3218.

The event also coincides with the Festival of Museums and more information is also on their website.  https://festivalofmuseums.com/events 

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Helen Taylor

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Sir Geoff Palmer: Scotland's role in the abolition of slavery hwu-geoffpalmer.eventbrite.co.uk. As part of Heriot-Watt’s Exploration Weekend on 18th and 19th May, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer OBE will hold a special lecture on the University’s relationship with the Gibson-Craig family and Scotland’s role in the abolition of slavery, with Heriot-Watt’s Museum and Archive opening its doors to display a new exhibition entitled ‘Edinburgh and Emancipation’ Geoff Palmer is a Professor Emeritus from Heriot-Watt University and a passionate human rights activist. He became the first black Professor in Scotland in 1989 and was knighted by the Queen for his innovative research in the 2014 New Year Honours. In his lecture, Professor Palmer will discuss the different types of slavery and how these have changed over the centuries, focusing on the ultimate Chattel Slavery to which black African people were subjected for over 300 years in the New World. In order to cease slavery, it was essential for it to be formally abolished by the governments involved. The abolitionists who drove the process are already

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