The main aim is to produce material or host events which leave a lasting legacy beyond 2007 and go some way toward effecting change on an individual and societal level through highlighting:

• the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  
• slave trade, and how “respectable” people were complicit
  
• the values of the abolitionists, and their campaigning zeal
  
• the legacies of slavery, noting that many are beneficiaries unawares, and that the negative elements endure - racism, low self-esteem of many Black people, and the disregard for Black life compared with white
  
• modern forms of slavery and exploitation
  
• theological and philosophical issues, including questions about what horrors and prejudices this generation permits, for which future generations will condemn us

Objectives:

• To provide safe spaces to discuss the complexities of slavery and how it has impacted relationships across our communities.
  
• To work in partnership on events and materials that grapple with the thorny issue of unity, reconciliation and racism in our churches through:
  
  • producing a range of resources to increase people’s awareness of the legacies of the Slave Trade and historical slavery on communities today
    
  • providing a more accurate telling of history including the roles that Christian men and women, both Black and white, enslaved and free, played in the abolition
    
  • highlighting the different forms of modern-day slavery and envisioning churches to follow in the footsteps of the Abolitionists of 200 years ago by taking action against modern-day slavery