ACNS: Archbishops of Canterbury and York online reflection - 'Slavery still with us'
14 MARCH 2007

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have today published an innovative online reflection on the nature of the Slave Trade in readiness for the Church of England’s Walk of Witness to take place in London on Saturday March 24.

The joint reflection has been posted on youtube and is also available on this site. It was filmed at the site of the Slave Market in Zanzibar, now the island’s Anglican Cathedral, during the recent Anglican Primates Meeting. The Archbishops were shown two small preserved slave pits, where up to 175 men, women and children were held in appalling conditions, chained and in darkness, often without food and water. Archbishop Sentamu spent some time at a memorial to the slaves which features some of the original chains used when the market was operating. the rest