Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing

guided walk a Black History Month and Jane Austen 250 Event

Presented by: Sarah Siddons Fan Club

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0	SOUTHAMPTON: Starting from Holyrood Church
P	Sunday 12th October, 2025
N	11:00am

Event information

The Southampton of Jane Austen's Day was a watering place famed for sea bathing, but it was also a town dominated in politics by the 'West Indian Party' , plantation owners who fought against the abolition of slavery, and who made their money from sugar and rum. It was a town of admirals, shipbuilders and colonialists who were at the forefront of the a growing British Empire.
This walk was commissioned as part of the University of Southampton's AHRD funded Maritime Communities research project.