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Every Sunday we’ll pluck just one walk from the vast London Walks
repertoire and put it centre stage.
But if you only
take one walking tour this week, why not make it…
Slavery & the City
Saturday 4th March 2017
2.30pm
Monument Tube, Fish Street Hill exit
2.30pm
Monument Tube, Fish Street Hill exit
Guided by Isobel
Forging, Breaking & Burying the Chains.
Pace Winston Churchill – this may have been London's
finest hour. And before it, its worst. Because London was a leading actor in –
profited enormously from – the slave trade. But a few good men and women took
the evil on and saw it off. Their names ring down the centuries, the great and
the good who fought for freedom: Wilberforce, Wedgewood, Wesley, Blake, John
Newton, Cowper. And that's not to forget the lesser known who began the cause:
Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, James Phillips and Oladouh Equiano.
Truly, here in the bosom of the City beat the heart of
compassion, answering the slave's cry, "Am I not a man and a
Brother?" Amazing Grace indeed. "Spots of time" (and place)
don't come any more important than this one. Which is why it's important to go
and see where – to go over the ground, literally and figuratively – to travel
back. To bear witness. N.B. the walk takes about two hours and ends at St.
Paul's cathedral, a minute's walk from St. Paul's Tube.
To go on the Slavery & the City walk meet Isobel
at 2.30 pm on March 4. The meeting point is just outside the Fish Street Hill
exit of Monument Tube.
About
Your Guide…
Isobel
Isobel is
an artist, journalist, linguist, prize-winning Blue Badge Guide and London
Walks' token aristocrat. One of her ancestors introduced the waltz to this
country.
A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.










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