Here, in a series of 8 articles, written by
Sarah Leah Cobham based on research by
Helga Fox, Sarah Cobham, Catherine Clarke, Zainab Jode, M Sharon Kabanda, Abibat Olulode, we show that Charles Waterton did, in fact, value and perpetuate the slave trade and provided the words saying so for a piece of silver presented to his friend Charles Edmonstone. The sisters, Eliza, Anne-Mary, Helen and Bethia were born into one of the most violent and bloody times of the British occupation of British Guiana, and their father, was at the heart of it. Their stories deserve to be told, and that is what we are doing: