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How a small Welsh village became embroiled in a slave trade controversy

14 May 2023

3:00 PM

14 May 2023

3:00 PM

You’ve probably never heard of Abergynolwyn, which sits in the Dysynni valley in Merioneth in Wales. The village, established in the nineteenth century to house workers at the nearby Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, is home to just 400 people. But now Abergynolwyn has found its name besmirched by tenuous links to the slave trade.

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