Freedom Festival
Three days of amazing events in Hull this weekend for the Freedom Festival!
Hull Amnesty Group will have a stall on Sunday 3rd September, featuring
Perronet Thompson. Perronet Thompson was a British Parliamentarian, Governor of
Sierra Leone and a radical reformer, born in Hull in 1783 and educated at Hull Grammar
School, MP for Hull 1835-1837, Governor of Sierra Leone 1808-1810.
Perronet Thompson is the subject of one of the essays in Hull Amnesty Group's publication
"Not Just Wilberforce".
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