Event overview
Transatlantic Trafficked Enslaved African Corrective Historical (TTeach) Plaques
TTEACH PLAQUES was founded in 2020 by Gloria Daniel, whose great-great-grandfather, John Isaac Daniel, was born into chattel slavery. TTEACH campaigns for reparative interventions and permanent plaques to contextualise cathedrals, churches, universities, schools, and memorials that glorify those who profited from the transportation and enslavement of African people.
The exhibition will display 49 black plaques designed by Gloria and Jane Daniel. The plaques will be exhibited along with testimonies by Gloria Daniel's interlocutors who were invited to highlight a site and individual who benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave economy. Many interlocutors chose to interrogate those who collected compensation under the Abolition Act of 1833.
The 50th plaque highlights Deptford Town Hall and the colonists’ statues on its exterior façade. Deptford Town Hall was selected by Dave Okumu, an honorary fellow of Goldsmiths, a musician and producer. During the period of the exhibition, the plaque will be installed next to the Council Room entrance on the first floor, permanently affixed in the building, challenging the overt projection of slavery and colonialism apparent on the façade of the building. Its presence marks the building permanently to prompt further conversations and acknowledgment of unatoned 'crimes against humanity' and ongoing structural inequalities. The plaque designated for Deptford Town Hall was created in consultation with Dave Okumu and Professor Emerita Jean Besson, a pioneer of Caribbean Studies at Goldsmiths.
TTEACH PLAQUES is a member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Deptford Town Hall thus becomes its first official Site of Conscience.
Opening on the 5th of March running until the 22nd of March in the Constance Howard Gallery, Deptford Town Hall, New Cross.
Image of John Isaac Daniel, oil painting by Ali Yanya, 2023.
Dates & times
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| 5 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not hold Goldsmiths ID! |
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| 6 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please note that the exhibition is accessible, even if the Constance Howard Gallery is closed. |
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| 7 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 8 Mar 2024 |
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| 11 Mar 2024 |
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| 12 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 13 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 14 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 15 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 18 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 19 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 20 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 21 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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| 22 Mar 2024 |
8:00am - 6:00pm Please ring bell if you do not have a Goldsmiths ID |
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