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MAKING FREEDOM EXHIBITION

Early day motion 59, tabled 9 June 2014 by Peter Bottomley (Conservative). Signed by 19 members.

That this House notes with respect and contrition the details of the Making Freedom exhibition in Parliament; thanks the Windrush Foundation, Arthur Torrington CBE and all in the team who created the exhibition; invites all in Parliament to commend the website www.makingfreedom.co.uk and the observance of 1 August each year as Emancipation Day; remembers with respect the service and sacrifice of members of the West Indies regiments in the Great War and other conflicts; and determines to match the achievements of the passing of Acts banning the slave trade and then slavery with the uncomfortable knowledge of compensation going to slave owners and not to those enslaved.

Signatures by party: Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Conservative 1, DUP 1, Independent 1.