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