Bridgetower

The resource focuses on the creative and cultural impact of the slave trade in Britain, with a study of artists linked to the anti-slavery movement, and is designed for teachers of Citizenship, Music, Art, History, English, Religious Studies and PSHE. The resource also supported the Bridgetower opera commissioned by the Festival in 2007, based on the life of black British violinist George Bridgetower, a composer and musician for whom Beethoven wrote his famous Kreutzer sonata. The son of a liberated slave, Bridgetower lived and worked in Britain around the time that the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed. The resource can be accessed at www.bridgetowerproject.org or email education@colf.org to order a free copy by post.

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