Lancaster slave trade tour makeover
A trail investigating Lancaster’s historical links to the slave trade has been updated thanks to a University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) academic.
Thursday, 21st January 2021, 3:45 pm
Alan Rice, Professor in English and American Studies, has revised the trail to focus on the city’s link to abolition.
He said: “I’ve been running regular guided slave trade tours around my adopted city of Lancaster for the past 20 years as it’s a fascinating part of its history. I was involved in the first version, but I volunteered my expertise to update the Lancaster Slave Trade Abolition and Fairtrade Trail and decided to focus on abolition and to highlight a much greater emphasis on black people’s making of their own history.”