You are invited to join in an exploration of Sheffield’s links to the enslavement and trade of people across the Atlantic, while also looking at the city’s links to the abolitionist movement.

Dr Michael Bennett, Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Sheffield, and one of the authors of the Sheffield, Slavery and its Legacies reports, is an expert in the relationship between British and the Caribbean plantation system. Most recently, he led the Bank of England’s research project into its links to historical slavery between 1694 and 1888. The findings of Bennett’s research were incorporated into a major new exhibition in the Bank of England Museum, titled Slavery & the Bank.

Revd Dr Casey Strine, Minor Cannon Theologian at Sheffield Cathedral and Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Sheffield, will be offering a response to Dr Bennett’s talk. Strine will draw on his own research into forced displacement and enslavement in the ancient world, including its depictions in the Bible, to consider how this historical research can and should be motivate contemporary responses to racism and inequality.

Tickets to this event are free, but please register to let us know you can make it and allow is to plan for catering.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.