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Slavery, the Great Trek and the making of South Africa’s labour economy

THE reason for the Great Trek is also not fully explained. Indeed, the British abolished slavery through the 1807 Slavery Act, which made the buying and selling of enslaved people illegal within the ...
The Root

How a Look Inside a Slave Ship Turned the Tide Toward Abolition

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...
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Slavery in South Africa : captive labor on the Dutch frontier / edited by Elizabeth A. Eldredge and Fred Morton

Slavery and South African historiography / Fred Morton -- Tower of Babel : the slave trade and creolization at the Cape, 1652-1834 / Robert C.-H. Shell -- Drosters of the Bokkeveld and the Roggeveld, ...
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Slavery and colonial rule in Africa / edited by Suzanne Miers and Martin Klein

"This group of studies first appeared as a special issue of Slavery and abolition, vol. 19, no. 2, August 1998"--T.p. verso. Slavery and the slave trade as international issues, 1890-1939 / Suzanne ...
Zimbabwe

3 African Countries on Cusp of Death Penalty Abolition

Harare, Zimbabwe — The international human rights organization Amnesty International says three sub-Saharan African countries considering ending the death penalty should do it now and pave the way for ...
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Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...