London Belongs to Me

"The spirits of unsung men and women of letters, slaves and freemen emerge from the stone monuments of tourist London as Martin conjures up the 19th century abolition movement and points out images of black soldiers in Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square.
"Martin also explores Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site of historic landmarks such as the Cutty Sark, the last tea clipper and the Royal Observatory. The tour, called Greenwich South of the River, visits the site of a historic black settlement along the waterfront and deals with the black contribution to the maritime industry as well as the dirty little secret floating on the Thames and buried beneath the bridges: 'A lot of these structures were built by merchants and planters who made their fortunes from slavery.'"

Sandra Jackson-Opoku in the Los Angeles Times explores black London.