The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has rallied his colleague ministers across Africa to support Ghana’s effort to table a motion on slavery at the UN next month on behalf of the ...
The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation group headed by Britain's King Charles, said on Wednesday she expected ...
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‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade
In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...
In Worlds of Unfreedom, Roquinaldo Ferreira recasts West Central Africa as a key battleground in the struggle to abolish the transatlantic slave trade between the 1830s and the 1860s. Ferreira ...
The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...
Brooke N. Newman - Author, The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas In 1823, 17 enslaved people were sold at an auction in Barbados in the name of ...
Washington, D.C. – Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., a lifelong civil rights leader and president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), has released “The Transatlantic Slave Trade ...
THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...
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Slave trade and abolition to be remembered
The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...
Historians and advocates are urging King Charles to formally apologise for Britain’s role in sustaining the transatlantic ...
The Commonwealth's Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey expects progress towards reparations discussions for the slave trade. Despite rejection from Britain, the 56-nation group, including African and ...
Ghana, CARICOM and the African Union (AU) are working in partnership in advancing a Resolution at the United Nations (UN).
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