10/04/2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
£5 (£3 concessions)
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Image: Thomas Clarkson, ‘Cabinet of Freedom’, Anti-slave trade campaign chest, 1787—8. Reproduced and used with the permission of the Trustees of the Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Clarkson’s chest of objects – currently on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum's Rise Up exhibition – acted as a ‘travelling museum’, helping him campaign against the slave trade. In collaboration with Coleman and the Museum, late British poet Benjamin Zephaniah wrote a poem all about Clarkson titled ‘The Rebel from Wisbech’.
