The above examples show that there were not only conflicting senses of place and space, but also conflicting notions of what constituted heritage and collective memory practices. In an effort to capture and understand the desires for dealing with the legacies of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans in Bristol, a research project called The Project Truth was launched by Black Southwest Network, in partnership with the Afrikan ConneXions Consortium under the leadership of three well-known Black activist women. The word TRUTH was an acronym for Telling, Restoring, Understanding (OUR) Tapestry (AND) History and the spelling of African as Afrikan was a common practice among local Black activists and expressed the idea of an alternative identity, not as African but more as an imagined pan-African identity, to be shaped without the direct influence of white people.