Remembering Slavery Online Exhibition
South Shields and the Slave Trade
"In no place in the United Kingdom has the American Slave warmer friends than in Newcastle"William Wells Brown, 1852
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884) was born into slavery in America. He escaped and became a writer and famous abolitionist. He travelled 12,000 miles in Europe as part of an anti-slavery lecture tour addressing 1,000 meetings between 1849 and 1854 - including places in the North East such as South Shields. Whilst in Newcastle, he stayed with the Quakers, Anna and Henry Richardson, who helped to purchase his freedom.
