Financial support and sponsorship
I became an Investigative Journalism Fellow with the Centre for Investigative Journalism to work on this investigation with Brixton Media.
I am very interested in continuing the piece beyond this fellowship and looking at whether slave owners who lived in Lambeth invested in the infrastructure and development of the borough.
Support is also something that I will need to continue this work. As a POC freelance journalist, it’s important that I have the right funding and resources needed for me to investigate more.
If anyone has any knowledge of how I can obtain this information or is a historian and does not mind working with me to produce the next phase of the investigation, please contact me on chrissieokoriemanagement@outlook.com
Thank you for telling an interesting if challenging story. It is striking to see how slavery and the proceeds of it were embedded into the British economy. I sometimes wonder if this national involvement can be hidden by focusing on individuals. Would people like myself whose family don’t seem to have had any direct connection to slavery think that it was nothing to do with them? Will they feel that changing a few road names is all that needs to be done? Incidentally, the Zanzibar photograph is a reminder the slavery was a global phenomenon since the slave trade there was controlled by Omani Arabs trading north along and across the Indian ocean.