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Here's what visitors to London, Sugar & Slavery thought about their visit. Don't forget to leave your own comments if you make a visit to the gallery!

Enjoyed exhibition, learnt lots, but still don’t understand why people thought slavery was ok. Makes me feel annoyed.

Well researched, well presented, good mix of explanations of how it was – recreating the world at that time – and of how the legacy affects everybody and how we are still dealing with the impacts of slavery. Good treatment of a sensitive but highly important subject. Having studied the subject at the university level and the issues surrounding public history/museums on slavery – we were very impressed with the exhibit and enjoyed it.

I came to the museum today especially for the sugar and slavery exhibit. My parents are Jamaican, my Dad’s family grew Blue Mountain Coffee and my Mum’s family worked on the sugar plantations, where my Grandfather was foreman. Despite my Grandfather’s senior position life was still hard for them. My grandparents were quite radical and taught my mother to look the plantation owner in the eye when talking to them and to never feel that she was not good enough. I wish the exhibit would tour the country.

Impressive and sad at the same time.

Great exhibition!

A highly informative and very important exhibition. I hope it remains a permanent one and that the British Museum is also interested in offering one of this kind! Thank you very much indeed.

I really liked this exhibition. Before I came here I didn’t know that much about slavery, but now I do! It was really interesting and set up really well. I can’t wait until I can come back!

Thank you for the dignity of the term ‘enslaved African’ and acknowledgement of the wealth generated by the barbaric activity of the sale of Africans. Expertly constructed and displayed.

Well researched and presents a well balanced view. Particularly
a) the corruption and influence of rich plantation owners, slave traders and sugar merchants on parliament and the law. Didn’t know about special low duties on sugar from West Indies and that MP owned plantations.
b) Highlighting the role played by Africans who captured and sold their own brothers into slavery. Without their active participation the whole tragic business would not have been possible.

I love it. What a wonderful approach. Well done.

Fascinating exhibition. Very informative. In two minds about the ‘truth’ that is told… the interactive information again very interesting and the answers cannot be easily given I suspect. I thank the Museum of London for putting this on. It needs more media exposure to ensure that many more visitors, both black and white come to view it and start to learn some elements of truth.

This exhibition has been an enlightening but familiarly frightening experience. It has helped me to question a lot of points. But it has also given me food for thought.

Thank you so much for putting the history of African enslavement in the context of London and recognising the suffering that has taken place. This is really something every one should see.

Excellent. Really captures the issues – really appreciate the chronological element.

Honest, factual, respectful; provocative.

It’s good to see this (or any) museum finally making the link between industry, cities, prosperity and slavery – something we’ve known all along.

The exhibition is good and highly commendable.

I was happy to see that Indo-Caribbeans have been given a mention as we are normally left out and mostly forgotten about in the general history of the Caribbean in British eyes… an excellent exhibition.

Thank you for this long overdue exhibit. As a West Indian who grew up studying the effect of plantation life on the islands of the Caribbean, one who was surprised at the general ignorance of this even in the nations that have benefited so much from it, I find it hopeful to see such a solid attempt to grapple with this history. I hope this will help open dialogue and consideration of the legacies we still live with.

Good intro to this period of history for those who know little about the subject. Pleased the exhibit took into consideration the language to be used i.e. enslaved Africans.

As a descendant of the African Slaves, I am very happy to see the British people finally have the honesty and remorse to address this terrible, unspeakable almost, part of their history. I hope that this exhibit will teach the younger generation of Europeans about the source of their ‘greatness’! I also hope that it will help to orient their minds towards the task of creating a just and truly fair world in all of our images.

A very thought-provoking exhibition. Well worth the visit.

A strong exhibition. The economic – as opposed to moral – basis for abolition was an interesting point.  I cannot believe that as a child in the 50s I read a children’s book featuring ‘Little black Sambo’! Thoughts that arise.

I am glad that is here explained the suffering of some of my people, as well as the origin of Britain’s wealth. A lesson for all of us, that’s what history is here for, to make us aware and say NEVER AGAIN! Thank you.

Very impressive exhibition, London Sugar and Slavery displays extensive detail and the entire exhibition exudes great integrity. It is frightening to see some of the atrocities that occurred, but I thoroughly appreciated the details that I learned today.