Black History Month Archives

William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

Oct

21

2022

William Cuffay drawn in his cell in Newgate [National Portrait Gallery London]William Cuffay was born in Gillingham in 1788 of an English woman called Juliana Fox and a man of African heritage, Chatham Cuffay who had been previously enslaved on the British Colony of St.Kitts. He was soon apprenticed to a tailor, working in the ...

William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

Oct

21

2022

William Cuffay drawn in his cell in Newgate [National Portrait Gallery London]William Cuffay was born in Gillingham in 1788 of an English woman called Juliana Fox and a man of African heritage, Chatham Cuffay who had been previously enslaved on the British Colony of St.Kitts. He was soon apprenticed to a tailor, working in the ...

Robert Wedderburn, Black Abolitionist family grave in Brockley cemetery

Oct

6

2022

Robert Wedderburn was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1762, of an African mother named Rosanna who was enslaved and a Scottish born father James Wedderburn, a slave and plantation owner, the son of Sir John Wedderburn, who had been executed for treason following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. After Rosanna had given birth to two ...

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William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

Robert Wedderburn, Black Abolitionist family grave in Brockley cemetery