The turn towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism in Western democracies makes it unlikely that former Western slave-trading nations will agree to reparations in the near future.
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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?
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has put forward laws that could put Indigenous land into the hands of mining, agricultural and timber businesses.
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
Britain’s Royal Navy embarked on a huge anti-slavery campaign, but those ‘rescued’ didn’t always feel the benefits.
If you want to know the extent of the slave trade from Liverpool, use the tools in this article.
How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
Despite the millions used in the transatlantic slave trade and Britain benefitting from their forced labour, a national memorial is proving difficult.
A historian says that critics get the past wrong.
Ghana is banking on a much needed boost to its tourism sector from its call to Africans in the diaspora.
The story of Asameni and Christiansborg Castle’s keys reveals the complexities of decisions taken during the transatlantic slave trade.
Crime related to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have shown an increase in recent years. An expert explains that American antagonism toward Islamic and Jewish traditions goes back nearly 500 years
Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden will be featured in Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit edition. Here’s why her success needs to be viewed in context of a long history of black Muslim women’s fashions.
Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam – acts that denote the obligations of living a good Muslim life.
Muslims are not new to America. The first Muslims came as slaves and left a deep influence on a host of music genres, such as the blues and jazz.
A former social studies teacher lists three ways educators and others can better understand the difficult subject of slavery in the US, including a way to hear directly from freed slaves themselves.
Archaeological research at Christiansborg Castle in Ghana has provided an in-depth understanding of Danish, Ga and Danish-Ga lived experiences during the eighteenth century transatlantic slave trade.
Merchants from Brazil, Cuba, North America and the British West Indies traded goods grown by slaves on plantations, for more slaves.
Top contributors
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Junior research fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town
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Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor, Emory University
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Atlantic World History, 1500-1800, Lancaster University
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Professor Emeritus of History, Emory University
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Professor of History, University of Essex
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University
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Professor of History, University of Regina
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
