Sir John Hawkins is described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as "the first English slave trader" The square was named after Elizabethan sailor Hawkins who is described in the Encyclopaedia ...

Discussing slavery, the UNHR states that ‘No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.’ We are still working to abolish ...

A church is to create an educational area about a slave trader who became an abolitionist. John Newton was curate of St Peter and Paul's Church in Olney, Buckinghamshire, between 1764 and 1780.