The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson
10.30am Saturday 25 October 2025
£15
The city was at the heart of the anti-slavery movements in the UK and Empire yet its mainstay product, cotton, was largely slave-picked. Epic history and a contradiction explored.
I've written three articles that will provide background reading to this tour.
Pan-African National Congress article
Thomas Walker, the abolitionist
Thomas Clarkson, the Manchester petition and the American Civil War
The Manchester Ship: The Guardian is plain wrong
Presentism and down with 'Nunc pro tunc'
Meet: Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. M15 6BD.
Tickets
£15 adults
£12 concessions students, people with disabilities, 65+ in full time retirement, or registered unemployed.
Under 10s free.
Please pay on Paypal below. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
Fully accessible
Totally fascinating
The Paypal receipt is your ticket. If you ordered from Eventbrite you will be sent an electronic ticket. Please check the email, from which you ordered your tickets, 24 hours before each tour, in case circumstances have arisen which affect the tour, especially if the tour includes access to a space not owned by Jonathan Schofield Tours. If there is no change to the plans, you will not be sent an email. And as usual, if you don't have an informative and entertaining tour please ask for a refund.
I've written three articles that will provide background reading to this tour.
Pan-African National Congress article
Thomas Walker, the abolitionist
Thomas Clarkson, the Manchester petition and the American Civil War
The Manchester Ship: The Guardian is plain wrong
Presentism and down with 'Nunc pro tunc'
Meet: Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. M15 6BD.
Tickets
£15 adults
£12 concessions students, people with disabilities, 65+ in full time retirement, or registered unemployed.
Under 10s free.
Please pay on Paypal below. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
Fully accessible
Totally fascinating
The Paypal receipt is your ticket. If you ordered from Eventbrite you will be sent an electronic ticket. Please check the email, from which you ordered your tickets, 24 hours before each tour, in case circumstances have arisen which affect the tour, especially if the tour includes access to a space not owned by Jonathan Schofield Tours. If there is no change to the plans, you will not be sent an email. And as usual, if you don't have an informative and entertaining tour please ask for a refund.