In honour of Black History Month, please join us on Monday, 31st October (refreshments from 5:30) in DS 2.14 for the following talk: Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth Portsmouth is not the first place that springs to mind when we imagine the eighteenth-century black British presence. But, as ‘the world’s greatest naval port’, it served as one of the main entry points for African and African-American sailors travelling to Britain. When they arrived among the dirt, noise and drunkenness of the industrialising port city, some of these individuals took it upon themselves to save the souls of Portsmouth’s ‘poor sinners’. What
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