Slavery in the Southern states of America continued long after it was banned in the British Empire. The course is about (1) the slaves who escaped the cotton plantations and found their way to Britain to build funds and support for the anti-slavery campaign and (2) the individuals who provided them with sustenance while they were here. In detail, we will look at the work of black abolitionists William Wells Brown, Henry Hyland Garnet, J W C Pennington and Alexander Crummell who toured the country lecturing against chattel slavery and drew large audiences from across British society. Also on our agenda are their predecessors Moses Roper, Charles Lennox Remond and Frederick Douglass. The slave Narratives of which there are many provide a basis for the course. Prior reading, in no way obligatory, would include the first two volumes of the autobiography of Frederick Douglass.