Opening Welcome
Anne Gell
Acting Dean of Wells Cathedral
An introduction to the Wells & Transatlantic Slavery Project
Jess Witchell, Wells Cathedral & Susann Savidge, Somerset African Caribbean Network
Re-thinking African Enslavement
Revd. Dr Carlton Turner
Anglican Contextual Theologian, The Queens Foundation
Wells, the West Country and the Atlantic World: what’s slavery got to do with it?
Tommy Maddinson
Exeter University & UCL
Wells Cathedral and Transatlantic Slavery
Professor James Clark
Exeter University
The Bishops of Bath and Wells – their connection to slavery and its abolition.
Debbie Manners
Exeter University
Who were the Tudways? Where did they come from and where did the money go?
Stephanie Mathivet
Author
The Legacy of Slavery in Antigua, and a Call for Reparations
Joy Lawrence OH
Antiguan Historian, Author and Poet
Decolonising Memory
Cleo Lake-Ayiih
Former Lord Mayor of Bristol & Research Associate, Bristol University
Plenary
Led by Revd. Dr Carlton Turner
Anglican Contextual Theologian, The Queens Foundation