Joanna Vassa: An imagined life
In celebration of Black History Month, Abney Park Trust hosted an online talk by Angelina Osborne on 'Joanna Vassa: An imagined life'.
This talk explores the life of Joanna Vassa as gathered from the archives and considers what her life could have been like, living as the daughter of one of the leading Black abolitionists of the eighteenth century.
Watch the recording
Abney Park Trust hosted this event during Black History Month to celebrate, commemorate, and preserve the history of black individuals buried in our cemetery.
Biography: Dr Angelina Osborne
Dr Angelina Osborne is an independent researcher and heritage consultant. She received her PhD in History from the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull in 2014.
Her interests focus on Caribbean enslavement and proslavery discourses, and the history of community and education activism.
Angelina's book co-written with Patrick Vernon: 100 Great Black Britons, was recently published on 24 September 2020. In 2003, Patrick Vernon launched a landmark campaign on 100 Great Black Britons, which was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. This book successfully relaunches this campaign with an updated list of names and accompanying portraits – including new role models and previously little-known historical figures.
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