Slave Trade Town Trail

On Wednesday 1st March 2023 we went on the walking trail of different areas of Lancaster associated with the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

This was our route on the day:

1. Friends Meeting House - Individual Quakers in Lancaster were substantially involved in the Slave Trade. Quaker Dodshon Foster buried here

2. St George’s Quay - Built to make it easier to load and unload goods from ships

Did you know that Lancaster was the 4th largest port for enslaved Africans through the River Lune?

3. Maritime Museum - Former customs house where shipowners paid taxes

4. Dodshon Foster’s House + Warehouse - He was a very wealthy Quaker who owned two small ships which during five voyages carried 650 enslaved Africans.

5. The Last Slave Ship to be built in Lancaster the Trafalgar

7. The Captured Africans - A memorial by Kevin Dalton-Johnson

8. Gillow’s Warehouse  -  This famous Lancaster furniture manufacturing family had shares in the slaving vessel The Gambia in the 1750s.

9. 20 Castle Park -  The home of the Satterthwaite family who ‘owned’ enslaved Africans such as Frances Elizabeth Johnson

10. The Priory - Used as a landmark for ships on the River Lune. The only record of some enslaved Africans is their baptism here

11. The Rawlinson family made a large part of their fortune from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Graffitied in 2020

12. Resting place of Frances Elizabeth Johnson’s mummified hand which had been passed down the Satterthwaite Family

You can watch the tour from Miss Mwale's eyes  here

You can complete the entire trail yourself using the map below