Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Photograph taken 16 November 2006 © Historic England Archive/Mr John Leaver ref: 415628

Pagenhill Archway Memorial was erected in Stroud, Gloucestershire to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies, August lst 1834 and is the oldest memorial to abolition.

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Gloucestershire Stroud

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Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, Stroud, Gloucestershire

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