Slavery
Mauritania: Marginalised Black populations fight against Arabisation
Hundreds of Black Mauritanian students gathered at the University of Nouakchott Tuesday to express their outrage against what they call a "comprehensive Arabization" of...
Sojourner Truth: Abolishionist and proponent of women’s rights
An ardent abolitionist and a proponent of women's rights, Sojourner Truth (Born: c. 1797; Died: November 26, 1883) found her voice in the early...
Africa: Dealing with human trafficking, forced sex and labour
Grim accounts of African and Asian women trafficked into wealthy countries and kept as virtual slaves are all-too-commonly headlined in Northern newspapers. But far...
Time to brand them all: AIDS, Tyrants, Talibans…
There is a time to die and a time to live (in Africa there is always more time to die) but there is also...
South Africa-Mozambique: One man’s fight against human trafficking
A casual conversation in a Pretoria, South Africa, café launched a dangerous investigation by Inácio Sebastião Mussanhane, a lawyer from Mozambique who was studying...
British government to publish profits from slave trade
The British government will embark on an in-depth study to measure how monies accrued from the slave trade were spent. The government announced recently...
US: Descendants of Slaves and Slaveholders dare…
Woodstock, Virginia, resident Phoebe Kilby suspected there was a connection between her white family and the black Kilbys who lived in nearby Front Royal....
U.S. gov’t apologises to African Americans for slavery
The US House of Representatives, has approved a resolution apologising for slavery and racial segregation of African-Americans.
"A genuine apology is an important and necessary...
The crimes of the atlantic slave trade revisited
The African expert group meeting on slavery opened in Banjul on Tuesday with a reminder that this crime against humanity disrupted Africa's political and...
The Forging of Races
Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000
Colin Kidd University of Glasgow
Colin Kidd University of Glasgow
This book revolutionises our...