Plantation hoes sold by Joseph Smith of Sheffield. Photo: Courtesy Sheffield Local Studies Library.
A fuller picture: Chrissie Hinde on Sheffield Quakers’ involvement in the slave trade
‘It was not unusual for Quakers in Barbados to trade in enslaved people.’
by Chrissie Hinde
24th January 2025
Sheffield & Balby Area Meeting’s Racial Justice Group has been exploring how Sheffield and its Quakers profited from the Atlantic economy, and the mass enslavement of Africans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Our discoveries form a Sheffield piece of the jigsaw puzzle that comprises Britain Yearly Meeting’s (BYM’s) work on reparations.
