barge church in docklands, london

this is the floating church of st.peter, built into a steel barge , moored outside the museum of docklands, london . the warehouses in west india dock date from c.1800, and stored sugar, rum and tobacco as part of the triangular trade that included massive transport and use of enslaved africans. it is often forgotten that political prisoners from england were also sold into slavery in the west indies, though they numbered in the thousands, against the hundreds of thousands of africans.