# Event Details - **Event Name**: Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Runaway slaves, free blacks and white women and men campaigned for a century to abolish slavery and slave-trading, against fierce oppositionAbout this EventThis walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery - based on a theory of race and 'aristocracy of skin' - between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s. Fugitive and former slaves, white lawyers, activists and orators -- women as well as men -- along with black activists, authors and musicians come alive in a walk from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street, Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden, ending at Embankment Gardens.The capture in London of escaped slaves led to legal cases that campaigners loudly supported. Slaves were given as gifts by West Indies planters to wealthy Londoners who used them as fashion-accessories. There were small communities of free blacks, many working as servants. Blacks made free by fighting on the British side during wars thronged to London, some becoming beggars but others getting by and even moving up in social class. On the walk you meet Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, James Somerset, Granville Sharp, Sarah Parker Remond, Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cuguano, Elizabeth Heyrick, Billy Waters, Samuel Johnson, Francis Barber, Hannah More, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, CLR James and more names now often forgotten. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/782cd910-2581-11f1-a591-7f7175887899-rimg-w493-h740-dc291f1a-gmir.jpg is Laura's longtime blog, focusing now on London history walks with Gender, Sex and Class. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/7871f860-2581-11f1-8500-4f0c3b0bf48e-rimg-w555-h740-dc010004-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/abolition-anti-slavery-campaigners-against-the-aristocracy-of-skin/100001985637745950 - **Event Categories**: Music, Workshops, Art, Business, Entertainment, Sports, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.5, max: 17.5, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Pavement at Exit 2 Chancery Lane Station - **lat**: 51.51804910000001 - **long**: -0.1108231 - **full address**: Pavement at Exit 2 Chancery Lane Station, High Holborn, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/5e83f708a2dacd8615773b89f9108aed7045a8f2fe6ade50f91a0e0d587c5d12-rimg-w323-h325-dc755e4e-gmir.jpg?v=1774137382 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin being held? - **A:** Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin takes place on Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:30 pm at Pavement at Exit 2 Chancery Lane Station, High Holborn, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin? - **A:** Tickets for Abolition! Anti-Slavery Campaigners Against the Aristocracy of Skin are priced at GBP 18 per person. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityGeneral AdmissionGBP 18Available - **Q**: Who is organizing Abolition! 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She has been a Londoner since the 1960s, although she has lived in numerous countries. Author of \nSex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry\n, she has for many years focused on getting the stories out of women marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are wrong. She spends time in the Manuscript Room of the British Library looking for clues to how women lived 1000 years ago, and couldn’t stop reading even if she wanted to. She is known as \nThe Naked Anthropologist.\nShe has qualified as a tour guide in order to take this focus to the streets, where guided history walks rarely talk about the poor except as objects of charity. " } ] } ] ```