Brighton and Hove City's Transatlantic Slave Trade Past

Brighton and Hove City's Transatlantic Slave Trade Past is on at the Sallis Benney Theatre on Wednesday 21 October, from 4 pm to 8 pm. It's a community symposium that looks at the city's own role in the transatlantic slave trade, and it falls within Black History Month.

The whole thing is part of the Reparations and Restitution Community Symposium, which runs during the UK's annual Black History Month. The aim is to give people a public platform to talk about how Britain's involvement in the slave trade still shapes racial, social and economic inequalities today, and to encourage public bodies to think about reparative approaches. It's not just a general conversation, either — the focus is local. Brighton and Hove's own maritime economy, commercial networks and civic institutions tie the city to the British empire and the slave trade, so the discussion stays close to home.

On the panel are Dr Bert Williams MBE, co-founder of Brighton & Hove Black History; Onyekachi Wambu, Associate for Special Projects at the African Foundation for Development; Professor Ahmed Reid, a scholar of reparatory justice; and Charmaine Simpson. It's a mix of scholars, campaigners and community leaders, with Brighton & Hove Black History leading the way and the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton as partner.

The symposium runs from 4 pm to 8 pm at the Sallis Benney Theatre, inside the University of Brighton at 58-67 Grand Parade, BN2 0JY. Entry is free, so you can just turn up and listen in.