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Once the fourth largest slaving port in the world, London's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade is being explored at the Museum in Docklands in a new permanent gallery, called 'London, Sugar & Slavery'.听

Set in a former sugar warehouse built to store produce from the Caribbean plantations, the Museum is itself evidence of London鈥檚 connections with slavery.

Personal accounts, film, music and artefacts look at the complexities of the issues around the trade in sugar and humans, slave resistance and the abolition campaign, as well as the legacies of the enduring relationship between London and the Caribbean.

David Spence, Director of the Museum in Docklands said: "We hope that the gallery will help Londoners from all backgrounds understand their own heritage and identity better.听

"People may find it uncomfortable, but to grasp this is to begin to understand many facets of society today, including attitudes towards race and the melding of British, African and Caribbean cultures."

Colin Prescod, Chair of the Institute of Race Relations and advisor on the gallery said:听 "Over some three centuries, transatlantic slavery and the associated 'triangle trade' generated extraordinary profit, amassed unimaginable wealth, and spawned obscenely inhumane brutalities on a massive scale."