Black history.SUGAR and spices are just a flavour of offerings from a programme this month. To highlight Black History Month, which celebrates the influences of Caribbean and African cultures, Sunderland Libraries and Tyne & Wear Museums will be hosting a range of free events. Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens kicked-off the celebrations with a Sugar and Spice sugar and spice “what little girls are made of.” [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 108] See : Children Trail, allowing families to find out how plants such as sugar, tea and rice were linked to the slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan . For more information call Tyne & Wear Museums on (0191) 232 6789. |
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