Hackney school's £10,000 appeal to fund slavery name change

Published:
3:05 PM February 15, 2021
  
Updated:
3:10 PM February 15, 2021
Pupils with their headteacher Jackie Benjamin at Tyssen Community School, which is soon set for a name change
- Credit: Tyssen Community School
A Hackney primary school is trying to raise £10,000 to buy every pupil a new school uniform once its name, which currently has dubious links with the slave trade, is changed. 
Dutch merchant Francis Tyssen, who settled in London in the 1640s, bought the Shacklewell estate at Hackney in 1685 with money earned from plantations in Antigua in the West Indies.
Tyssen's family also held shares in the British slaving company, the Royal African Company and he sat on its committees to decide which goods to buy from West Africa. 

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