Protesters march and hold up posters along the streets of Hamilton to support anti racism and Black Lives Matter.
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The Canadian response to racism south of the border can be described as an Americanization of Canadian history.
Statue of the Berbice slave revolt leader Kofi in Georgetown, Guyana.
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The slave revolt in Berbice, modern-day Guyana, was unusual for its length and near success. So why are so few of the revolt’s documents in the Caribbean nation’s archives?
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Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
Cameroon’s soldiers patrol near a tank in the Cameroonian town of Fotokol.
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Cameroon’s anglophone crisis is not simply a dispute between two feuding groups: a range of international actors have been architects of the current situation.
Revered no more: the statue of Bristol slave-trader Edward Colston is torn down.
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The statue was part of a push in the Victorian era to create mercantile heroes. Colston’s slaving activities were conveniently glossed over.
By the 17th century, wealthy Britons were already experiencing the delights of expensive sugar confections.
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The story of the growth of Britain’s sugar trade can tell us a lot about the development of capitalism and the slave trade.
Digital reconstruction of French slaver L'Aurore.
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If you want to know the extent of the slave trade from Liverpool, use the tools in this article.
Converting aging paper documents to digital archives can be a painstaking effort.
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Centuries’ worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.
A statuette of a proposed memorial that has yet to find full funding.
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Despite the millions used in the transatlantic slave trade and Britain benefitting from their forced labour, a national memorial is proving difficult.
Pope Francis at the Monument Mary Queen of Peace, in Port Louis, Mauritius on Sept. 9, 2019.
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Pope Francis recently completed a tour of three African nations. His visit needs to be understood in the context of the church’s long history in Africa and its modern-day difficulties.
Screen Shot of the New York Times homepage for its series, “1619.”
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A historian says that critics get the past wrong.
Oromo children saved from slavery.
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Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Sections of a Brazilian slave ship from the 19th century.
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Merchants from Brazil, Cuba, North America and the British West Indies traded goods grown by slaves on plantations, for more slaves.
The Great Mosque of Djenné, in Mali, has a history dating back to the 13th century which can inspire regional trade in West Africa.
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West Africa has lessons to learn from its ancient empires and colonial governments on regional trade and integration.
Trapped on the slave ship Cornwallis.
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The television dramas have not exaggerated the horrors of the slave trade. The reality was often even worse for Africans taken from their homes.
Malachi Kirby as enslaved man Kunta Kinte, in the new adaptation of Roots.
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The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
Long walk to freedom: anti-slavery campaigners in Hull.in 2007.
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Ending slavery didn’t mean that the rights of Britain’s colonial peoples were properly protected. Far from it.
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An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.
Profits from slavery funded education. Washington and Lee University campus.
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The slave trade was used to fund American universities. Scholars are looking to recover the lost stories of the enslaved humans who built some of America’s oldest institutions.
Criminal gangs who use slave labour are often involved in deforestation or pollution.
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Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.