Slavery Remembrance Day 2023: Full list of events taking place in Liverpool

National Museums Liverpool (NML) has organised a full week of events to commemorate this year's Slavery Remembrance Day.

NML, working in partnership with Liverpool City Council and the RESPECT Group, has created the programme to commemorate the history and ongoing legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The museums hope the events, which will consist of family activities, workshops and talks, will encourage learning from the injustices of the past and explore how we can all work together to prevent them from happening again.

Liverpool was the European capital of the transatlantic slave trade, responsible for half of Britain's trade. The ships would set sail from Liverpool holding goods, which were exchanged for enslaved men, women and children on the west coast of Africa, who were then taken across the Atlantic on a journey known as "the middle passage".

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A spokesperson for NML said: "Slavery Remembrance Day acknowledges this major period of trauma and injustice in world history which is too often forgotten and marks an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue (modern Haiti) in 1791. The date has been designated by UNESCO as a reminder that enslaved Africans were the main agents of their own liberation."

Michelle Charters, trustee at NML and CEO of the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, told the ECHO: "Liverpool now has a much better understanding of the trade and its role in it. I have been involved in the Liverpool 8 community since I was 17 and have worked with National Museums Liverpool since 1994. My journey has been consistent and persistent - and I have been constructively critical of the city's approach to addressing its history.

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