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The Theatre Royal in Bristol, which is the second oldest working theatre in the country, was built as a result of very wealthy subscribers (that directly or indirectly benefited from businesses involved in the slave trade) each pledging a sum of money for the building.
9 de sept. de 2018 · New life for historic theatre as it faces up to ‘slave trade’ past. Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m facelift. Vanessa Thorpe...
5 de feb. de 2022 · Tom Wall. Sat 5 Feb 2022 08.00 EST. Bristol Old Vic’s outgoing artistic director Tom Morris has defended his decision to publicly highlight the slave trade riches that financed the...
Many of the city’s public buildings, educational and economic institutions (such as the Theatre Royal, Colston’s School, the Old Bank and the tobacco and sugar industries), owe their origins to the wealth created by the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced commodities.
Bristol was a processor of slave-produced goods, a supplier of goods to West African slave traders, the provider of slaves and goods to plantations, as well as the home of planters and planters’ agents (and many more who grew rich from the trade). Image: Ships Moored on the Floating Harbour.
16 de mar. de 2007 · The first open meeting in Bristol on the abolition of the slave trade occurred in 1788, in the medieval Guild Hall (now demolished), Broad Street. A petition was drawn up there, which some...
26 de sept. de 2023 · Bristol's Old Vic Theatre was built in 1766 and is one of the oldest theatres in the UK. Originally called The Theatre Royal, it was funded by 50 men, many of whom were slave traders,...
