Relaxed sightseeing cruise on Regent’s Canal with commentary and educational references on the centuries of African/Caribbean history
There are centuries of Black history across Britain’s canal networks. This guided cruise around the Camden/King’s Cross area will expose and explore some of that history. Your exclusive, comfortable canal boat will float gently along the quiet backwaters of this busy city while we discuss:
- Black scientists and inventors
- Ancient African engineering
- The real Bridgerton, rich Black British people of the 1800s
- The Trinidad connection, canals and capitalism
- African Americans and Civil Wars
- Luxuries and classic British culture
- Racist statues and those who defend them, the BLM connection
- Caribbean labour and the British Industrial Revolution
- Armed Black resistance against white supremacy
- British sewage in the West Indies
- Your underwear
Plus. Bring your own sandwiches and have a nibble while we float. After the commentary, we will enjoy some 70s/80s/90s classic Soul/R&B while sipping Jamaican ginger beer and sharing our specially curated historical book list.
Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
- Black history bus tour
- Black history river cruise
- The Little Mermaid’s real Black history and the books to prove it, talk
- Fighting the slavemaster: Resistance and Reparations Walk
- Harlem in Mayfair/Hackney/Trafalgar Square/Bloomsbury/ walks
- How to teach Black history at GCSE level, workshop
- Black History steam train tour
- The Gentrifiction of Peckham and Black urban removal worldwide,
- Frantz Fanon weekender
- Ismahil Blagrove season of films and books
- 17,500 people and the fight for racial equality at the BFI, British Film Institute HERE