Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, Nigeria, as an example of modern-day slavery. Soyinka addressed the United ...
"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question to Republican presidential primary candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at a town hall in Berlin, New ...
The transatlantic slave trade, carried out by Western powers for nearly four centuries, remains one of humanity's darkest chapters, leaving deep scars through the suffering, loss, and shattered lives ...
Abraham Lincoln pledged in his First Inaugural Address to keep the union together but to allow slavery in the States that had it already Nikki Haley recently downplayed the role of slavery in the ...
Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007. Reviewed by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Journal of ...
WHENEVER the topic of slavery is raised, it is usually the Trans-Atlantic trade, yet it is only a fragment of a much longer story of human bondage and suffering. There are also popular misconceptions ...
“I have learned that while history can be hidden, it cannot and should not be erased,” said President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery. Sipa USA Papillion Joe Biden, ...
(Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since its first law abolishing trade in African slaves received royal assent, in a major step toward ending a trade that shipped more than 10 million ...