"Equiano and Birmingham"
All text by Dr Andy Green
Equiano and Birmingham: Researching the Links.
This exhibition is intended to generate more research into Olaudah Equiano’s visit to Birmingham in 1790.
Equiano ...
"The Joseph Sturge Monument "
The Joseph Sturge Monument at Five Ways: A Photographic Essay.
All text by Dr Andy Green
This city story highlights the changing fortunes of Birmingham’s monument to Joseph Sturge (1793-1859). ...
Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.
This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectives. It is noticeable here that in 1826 the society subscribed ...
Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith came to Birmingham in 1879. Born into slavery in the United States, Amanda Smith's father bought his freedom and that of his family. Smith herself was educated at home, and in 1863 moved ...
AMERICAN SLAVERY TO ENGLISH MINISTRY: THE REVD. PETER THOMAS STANFORD (1860-1909)
Submitted by Rev. Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church, Birmingham.
In 1995 I was investigating the history of Highgate Baptist Church, when a friend brought me details of an article he’d noticed ...
Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',
In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that provided them with current knowledge about events around ...
Antislavery Lecture by Rev Thomas Swan (extract).
Lectures, speeches, public addresses and sermons were a vitally important way of spreading the word about slavery to the Birmingham public. The extract above shows a dramatic example of how Rev. Thomas ...
Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.
Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List)
This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery Society, including Sturge, helped to found a short lived ...
Birmingham Canal
Image: Photograoh from Warwickshire Photographic Survey (date unknown).
The canal systems were vital for the developemt of metal industries in Birmingham. See 'Campaiging for Social Justice for a ...
Birmingham's 'Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ .
The reports, minute books, cash books and illustrated albums of Birmingham’s ‘Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ show just how organised, determined and creative its members were in their ...
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, a controversial African-American figure, was perhaps one of the last great abolitionists to visit Birmingham who had lived through the devastation of the American Civil War. In its ...
First Report of the Ladies Society For The Relief of British Negro Slaves.
The 'First Report' of the Ladies Society For The Relief of British Negro Slaves(1825)bore on its front cover the female figure of a slave seeking justice. A significant number of other archives also left ...
Fisk Jubilee Singers
The Jubilee Singers, The Ex-Slave Singers of Fisk University, At Birmingham Town Hall,February 26th and March 3rd, 1874.
Founded in Nashville in 1866, Fisk University was one of a number of educational ...
Hannah Sturge
There are currently few available images of the powerful women who worked for local women's antislavery societies. This image of Hannah Sturge (wife of Joseph Sturge) with one of her daughters seated ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)
(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.
Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (part 1)
Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.
Ida B. Wells in Birmingham
Submitted by Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church
Ida B Wells (1861-1930), well-known in the USA, where a great deal has been written about her contribution to civil rights, is not well known ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
Image taken from ...