Visitors to Sunday’s Slave Trade Act commemorative service at the Cathedral will get the chance to show their support for The Royal Gazette’s Break The Chains campaign.

Our petition — which supports Anti-Slavery International’s on-line campaign to end modern day slavery — will be available for people to sign inside the building.

It states: “I pledge to join the fight for freedom, to commemorate the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its abolition, address its legacies, and work for the eradication of all forms of slavery today, which affect at least 12 million people around the world.”

So far more than 18,300 people across the globe have put their names to the petition.

The Cathedral service begins at 5 p.m. and is expected to last about an hour. It features prayers, hymns, presentations and displays.

Organiser Rev. Nick Dill said advice will also be available for people afflicted by modern day “captors” such as alcohol or drugs.

The Commissioner’s House event runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will include a reading about Bermuda’s slavery history by Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler, entertainment from Gombeys and tours of Bermuda Maritime Museum’s slavery exhibition.