![Investments in the South Sea Company by the Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, 1715-1720](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717591793067-9S27EAD9FQT1TY2Q3G66/2021-05-06%2B11.41.34.jpg)
Investments in the South Sea Company by the Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, 1715-1720
The archives of the Dean & Chapter include a collection of early 18th-century stock and dividend receipts and an accounts book evidencing an extensive financial legacy from investments in two of the largest slave-trading companies in history.
![The Last Stand of Lieutenant Henn and his Sappers](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717592243625-E9UXS9QJFEIH8VA7PSMF/5.jpg)
The Last Stand of Lieutenant Henn and his Sappers
The story behind the names of the ‘Native Sappers and Miners’ commemorated in the 1888 Royal Engineers memorial mosaic at the west end of the Nave of Rochester Cathedral.
![Kent and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A County Study, 1760S - 1807](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1710407298021-LWX2WOXMK5YXQTE5RLE4/Image_002.gif)
Kent and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A County Study, 1760S - 1807
Professor David Killingray
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