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Anti-slavery campaigners were active in Surrey before the abolition of the slave trade and continued afterwards to help freed slaves become part of Surrey's diverse community. Find out about these campaigners and freed slaves, such as John Springfield, through the pages of this web site.

Surrey also had anti-abolition campaigners such as Charles Nicholas Pallmer. Elected as a Member of Parliament for Surrey in 1826.

For more on Surrey's diverse cultural heritage see, for example:

the Diversity pages and
the Military pages (photographs of cultures encountered by the Surrey Regiments world-wide including Gurkhas and others)

on this web site.

Surrey History Centre has produced:

a Cultural Diversity bibliography and
a Guide to Tracing Black Roots
(both downloadable as pdf documents ).

Want to find out more about Black History Month?

Other websites to visit include Black History Month and Black History 365.

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