Online workshop:

The Crown and Reparatory Justice

Monday, November 16th 7.30 - 21.00 pm (GMT)

Tickets are free. Please book in advance.

Heirs of Slavery is kicking off a new season of online workshops with two speakers who have been catalysts for changing how we think about the British royal family and its many connections, political, financial and personal, to the enslavement of African people. This workshop will be followed by a discussion about how to use our networks to open doors and shift attitudes towards reparatory justice. The speakers are:

Professor Brooke Newman, author of The Crown's Silence, a ‘hidden history of the British monarchy and slavery in the Americas’. Newman teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an award-winning historian of enslavement and colonialism, whose new book has been called 'comprehensive and penetrating... a probing investigation [which] will prove essential to future discussion.'

Dr. Toyin Agbetu is a social rights activist, community educator and film maker. In 2007, he famously made a nonviolent protest at the ceremony in Westminster Abbey marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, saying to the Queen that she should apologise and make reparations. He is now a lecturer in anthropology at University College, London and is interested in institutional activism, decoloniality, and community resistance.