A quilt commemorating Walsall's connections to the trans-atlantic slave trade will be displayed at a unique show at Walsall Museum. The 'Trade Links' exhibition, developed by Walsall Council's creative development team and funded by the Heritage Lottery, takes place from October 20 to January 5 and commemorates the journey of Africans enslaved in the Americas. The elders group at the Black Sisters Collective community project in Caldmore have created a series of textile arts for their quilting project in collaboration with arts workers, The Cultural Sisters. The result has seen the creation of three quilts, commemorating Walsall's links to the trans-atlantic slave trade and its abolition in the Parliamentary Act of 1807. The exhibition also commemorates and celebrates the constant resistance against slavery by Africans, including the efforts of local and national campaign groups and activists against the inhumanities of what was then called 'the gentleman's trade'. | 
