Bristol Cathedral is launching a new exhibition that hopes to tell the ‘truth’ about its links to the slave trade. Called All God’s Children, it follows research that revealed around 1,000 people were buried or memorialised in the cathedral and its grounds between 1670 and 1900.
Around 200 (20%) of them had a close connection to the slavery-based economy. The exhibition will take place inside the cathedral and on College Green.
Inside the building, All God’s Children will exhibit the cathedral’s connections with the transatlantic trade of enslaved people through its memorials and grave-markers. On College Green, there will portraits of and remarks, comments or questions from Christians in Bristol, some of whom live with the legacy of slavery and experience the reality of racism in their everyday lives.
