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Writers and others began to publicise the conditions faced by Africans, European sailors and made people aware of the injustice of the slave trade.

     

Talking Head: Extract from William Cowper's 'Pity for Poor Africans' (1788)

Talking Head: Extract from Hannah More's 'Slavery: A poem' (1788)

Talking Head: The account of 'Poor Daniel' by Mary Prince in The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

The full tour includes a visit to The Seven Stars, the pub in which Thomas Clarkson collected sailors stories about the Middle Passage, and the Meeting Houses used by the Quakers and the Methodists in central Bristol.