I met Maggie Bolton, the history editor for the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society at the Society’s 2019 annual meeting, held at the Museum of London. I had in my mind a piece about black history in Camden Town, and she encouraged me to get on and write it.
I knew I had material about the Jefferys/Pratts and the Wilmots, and decided to use the street names as the framework. It also became evident that the histories were about the slave trade and about emancipation rather than slavery directly.
The paper was published in the Transactions after some delay because of the Covid epidemic. It is now available with open access. Here is the Summary:
