This is Penrhyn Castle. It's visible from the house I used to live in, my primary school was next door, and I'm really grateful to see the National Trust use it to illustrate a thread about its properties that were built by slavers. (1/5) https://twitter.com/nationaltrust/status/1297429122126422016

Lord Penrhyn built Penrhyn Castle using money he made from a sugar plantation. He opened Penrhyn Quarry and employed men from our community to work as miners. He paid them poverty wages, made them buy their own tools, and accidents were frequent (2/5)

In 1900, the quarrymen went on strike for 3 years, over poor pay, poor conditions and generally the awful way they were treated by Lord Penrhyn. They were starved back to work eventually, but to this day it is still the longest-running strike in British history. (3/5)

Despite their poor pay, the quarrymen of Penrhyn Quarry voluntarily contributed thousands of pounds to the building of Bangor University as part of a campaign for better education. When the university opened, 3,000 quarrymen marched from the quarry to the university. (4/5)

lord Penrhyn is still despised by many in North Wales. While the Africans enslaved by the Penrhyn Estate had an infinitely worse experience than the quarrymen, Penrhyn Castle reminds me that even when our struggles are different, the enemy is often the same. ENDS (5/5)