The heroics of HMS Black Joke, a Royal Navy clipper that waged a fearless five-year war to put an end to the slave trade, are worthy of a Hollywood action movie.
Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert told Good Morning Britain that the flag-waving anthem was patriotic rather than racist, following calls to ban the song as it is too celebratory of Britain s imperial past.
Jonathan Wright talks to the award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus about his efforts to piece together the life of a freed slave in Sierra Leone, listed in a register as merely “Recaptive Number 11,407, without name, deaf and dumb”
Jonathan Wright talks to the award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus about his efforts to piece together the life of a freed slave in Sierra Leone, listed in a register as merely “Recaptive Number 11,407, without name, deaf and dumb”