Digital Educational Series on Liverpool’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Digital Educational Series on Liverpool’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The educational digital series The Streets Where We Live, explores four writers’ responses to Liverpool’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. The project stems from The Streets Where We Live, a bespoke historical walking tour originally commissioned in 2021 by Falling Doors Theatre and the Everyman & Playhouse. Four writers - Ashleigh Nugent, Marjorie Morgan, Paislie Reid, RJ Lloyd - were invited to join local historian Laurence Westgaph’s Liverpool & Slavery walking tours and create any kind of written response they chose, based on what they learnt.
The depth and extent of the slave trade’s impact on the development of the city of Liverpool was discovered and the tour allowed audiences the opportunity to see countless landmarks, monuments and streets names under a new perspective.
Writers: Ashleigh Nugent, Marjorie Morgan, Paislie Reid, RJ Lloyd
Director: Sarah Van Parys
Tour Curator & Creative Consultant: Laurence Westgaph
Creative Producer: Nancy Msiska
Dramaturg: Francesca Peschier
Actors: Afua Ofori-Darko, Ashleigh Nugent, Princess Khumalo, Winston Branche
Digital Producer: Peter Greggs
Education Pack: Adam Vasco
We hope this free digital resource helps bring Black voices into the classroom, with personal encounters on how slavery continues to impact people today, as well as allowing schools and education providers to discuss Liverpool's involvement in slavery and how it has shaped our city. Aimed at students (secondary school and above), and for people with an interest in Liverpool history, there are four videos with interviews from the writers, historical information from Laurence and the performed pieces from the original walking tour. So that teachers are supported in delivering this subject accurately to the classroom, we advise before using any of these resources in an educational setting, to download and read our Education Pack, created by Adam Vasco.
You can download the pack here.
Image left to right: Winston Branche, Princess Khumalo, Laurence Westgaph, Sarah Van Parys, Afua Ofori-Darko, Ashleigh Nugent, Nancy Msiska