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The Fight Against Slavery

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A six-part dramatised documentary series
Despairing of any further help from the English Parliament 25 years after Abolition. the slaves were beginning to fight for their own freedom. In 1832 a serious rebellion broke out on the island of Jamaica.
6: Free Paper Come
Written and introduced by EVAN JONES Music
JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Photography TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS Make up CHERRY ALSTON Designer OLIVER BAYLDON
Assistant producer CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN Producer CHRISTOPHER RALLING

Contributors

Introduced By:
Evan Jones
Unknown:
Joseph Horovitz
Unknown:
Cherry Alston
Designer:
Oliver Bayldon
Producer:
Christopher Griffin
Producer:
Christopher Ralling
William Wilberforce:
David Collings
William Knibb:
Bryan Marshall
Colonel Lawson:
Patrick Barr
Daddy Sharp:
Stanley Irons
Grignon:
Malcom Douglas
Manderson:
Keith Sasso
Philip:
Oliver Samuels
Deacon Swiney:
Leo Oakley
James Stephen:
Gary Hope
George Stephen:
Timothy Carlton
Mrs Wilberforce:
Joanna Wake
Mrs Knibb:
Jill Williams
Thompson:
Robert Kerr
PeSSOa:
George Bond
Colonel Johnson:
Michael Everett
Grant:
Patrick Tenison
Mrs Graham:
Jane Harries
Source: Radio Times

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