Throughout the project we’ll be evaluating Legacy Makers and measuring the impact of the project on the volunteers, paid workers, partners and wider community. We’ll use this information to inform articles, papers and our end of project report.

Charles Kihago, 8 October 2019

“It’s been rewarding to take part in activities of the Legacy Makers, a cultural/ educational group. It is enriching indeed to visit places in the Midlands and further afield to see, at firsthand, the often unacknowledged influence/ impact that the transatlantic Slave Trade has had on Britain’s prosperity and development that resulted from the woeful exploited labour of many generations of enslaved people.

It is easier to appreciate and understand a cultural heritage that blights the well-being of descendants of enslaved people who remain uncompensated for their enforced labour and contrast this to the wealth inheritance of the descendants of former slave owners who built industries as a product of enslaved people and received compensation for “loss of property” when enslaved people were freed.”

Charles Kihago