
Culture
Slavery Remembrance Day is this month, but why is it so important in Liverpool?
Liverpool will join a worldwide commemoration of Slavery Remembrance Day on August 23, with events centring around the International Slavery Museum at Royal Albert Dock. The museum was opened on August 23, 2007 – coinciding not only with Slavery Remembrance Day but also the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade. So why is...