Barbados

Although Britain ended the slave trade in 1807, slavery continued across the Empire for another quarter-century. Abolition is often praised, but formerly enslaved people were often pushed into low-paid work or unpaid “apprenticeships”.

Earlier in the afternoon, Manchester’s Mack Clarke asked the crowd to observe a one-minute silence in honour of Winston Pinder, a Barbadian pioneer, former NCBA executive officer, and a significant contributor to the Caribbean community in the UK.