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Trading in Human Lives - the Richmond Connection March 25th 2007 saw the bicentenary of the Act of Parliament that abolished the Slave Trade in the British Colonies and made it illegal to carry slaves in British ships. The Museum of Richmond includes a special display which examines the origins of the slave trade, Richmond people involved in the trade and its abolition, and the presence of black people in Richmond in the eighteenth century as a result of the trade. It is brought up to date by a current evaluation of the slave trade and an examination of the slave forts on the coast of Ghana and how they are presented and interpreted today. Click on any image for an enlargement.  Opening       Richmond on Page and Screen