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BITTERSWEET: Sugar, Tea and Slavery –
A Story of Wales and Slavery
Working closely with the Gateway Gardens Trust, The Rural Media Company produced some revealing digital stories, based on research and memories of how slavery affected people's everyday lives - information virtually airbrushed from history.
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Worm Syrup
Storyteller: Fred Isaacs
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My First Black Boy
Storyteller: Bettina Harden
| By approaching the subject through the everyday routine of a country house, the gentility of drinking tea or the turning of wool into cloth, Bittersweet shows how slavery had a profound effect on everyone in Britain and certainly in Wales. Our project coordinator, Jo Comino, travelled to Gateway Gardens, meeting participants, helping them to tell their stories and presenting them on this fascinating DVD.
The Gateway Gardens Bittersweet project began in 2007 - the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in British ships - and was launched at The National Assembly for Wales building, Cardiff Bay in October 2009.
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Dan Clayton-Jones, Welsh Heritage Lottery talks about the Bittersweet project.
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Bettina Harden, Chairman of the Gateway Gardens Trust introduces the project and talks about the digital stories.
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