Slavery

Mauritania: Marginalised Black populations fight against Arabisation

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

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

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...
AIDS

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

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

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…

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

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 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

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...