From its earliest beginnings in the 1600's the English had strong views about buying and selling people and transporting them into slavery. Kate will explore how the country and the Sussex community in particular, benefitted from the practice, the local propaganda which defended it, the role and motivation of those in Sussex who joined the long campaign for it's abolition and the part they played in finally achieving it in 1833. 

Kate Phillips spent her working life as an international social development specialist conducting research and training community educators to build a civil society which would strengthen rights and opportunities. She established a charity based at the University of Glasgow, where she directed a post graduate fellowship bringing international rights activists to study here in Britain. On her retirement she took up an interest in British slavery and began researching and giving talks. She published her book ‘Bought and Sold, Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery’ in 2022.