Introducing Making Freedom – 2014

Articles Making Freedom

This website celebrates the 1838 emancipation of nearly a million Africans in the Caribbean.
It is about Windrush Foundation’s Making Freedom exhibition which tells the stories of how
liberation was won.

NEW EXHIBITION TOUR

MAKING FREEDOM – From Emancipation to Windrush

@ BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVES

 1, WINDRUSH SQUARE, LONDON, SW2 1EF 
  9th  - 23th December 2014 

  Enquiries: 
  windrush.event@gmail.com
  Tel: 07737271437 

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PREVIOUS EVENTS FROM THE MAKING FREEDOM EXHIBITION TOUR

From Tues 16th Sept to Friday 17th Oct 2014

Downham Health & Leisure Centre
7-9 Moorside Rd
Bromley,
BR1 5EP

OPENING HOURS:
Monday: 09:00 – 10:00
Tuesday: 09:00 – 10:00
Wednesday: 09:00 – 10:00
Thursday: 09:00 – 10:00
Friday: 09:00 – 10:00
Saturday: 09:00 – 18:00
Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00

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EXHIBITION ON TOUR @

From Monday 20th to Thursday 30th October 2014

CITY HALL (MAYOR OF LONDON)

THE QUEEN’S WALK, SE1 2AA

10.30 to 16.30 (weekdays)

ADMISSION FREE

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From Monday 20th to Friday 24th October 2014

The Financial Ombudsman Service

Exchange Tower

Harbour Exchange Square

London E14 9GE

Nearest Docklands Station: South Quay

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From EMANCIPATION to WINDRUSH

The period from 1838 to 1948 saw some changes within the Caribbean. After Emancipation Day, 1st August, Africans women went out in search of their sons and daughters who had been taken away to other sugar plantations, and who did not see their mothers and fathers again. The women re-united ‘the African family’ which had been dismantled by enslavers during the previous 200 years. For decades families struggled to make a living, but many made little or no economic progress.

COME ALONG AND HEAR THIS PRESENTATION BY ARTHUR TORRINGTON

Tuesday 21st OCTOBER 2014 @ 6.30pm

City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA

ADMISSION FREE

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WEST INDIANS AT THE PANAMA CANAL

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the Panama Canal. Windrush Foundation will hold another commemorative event at 6.30pm on

Tuesday 28 October 2014

City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA

The Panama Canal, considered an engineering wonder of the world, has long been touted as an American achievement. Yet, without the sweat and blood of thousands of workers from the West Indies, the canal could not have been built. More than 50,000 Barbadians, Jamaicans, and other colonial subjects worked on the project, and very many died.

ADMISSION FREE

For more information: windrush.event@gmail.com

Text your confirmation of attendance to:

07737271437