Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing – A Black History Month Hidden History Walk

Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing - A Black History Month Hidden History Walk

When

October 12, 2025    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Where

Holyrood Church
High Street, Southampton, SO14 3AU
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Southampton in Jane Austen’s day was a watering place famed for sea bathing, but it was also a town dominated, in politics, by the ‘West Indian Party’ – plantation owners who fought against abolition and made their money from sugar and rum. It was a town of admirals, shipbuilders and colonialists who were at the forefront of a growing empire.

This walk is commissioned as part of the University of Southampton’s Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded Maritime Communities research project.

Starting from Holy Rood Church, High Street, Southampton SO14 3AU.

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