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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
Descendants of slaves, owners call for reparations at the UN
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
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Exhibition tells the story of the slaves who fueled Britain’s postal empire
A small photo of a woman carrying two lumps of coal is unlike any image of a woman carrying two lumps of coal you could ...
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Scenes From a Reenactment of a Slave Uprising
It was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history—and quickly ... more than 300 black re-enactors wearing 19th-century clothes traced the rebels’ 26-mile route from LaPlace, in St. John the ...
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Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
The first accounts described runaway slaves and Native Americans raiding ... from the 18th or early 19th century and a small lead shot, probably 1700s. Jason Pietra Using a dating method called ...
Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance
Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
The continuation of slavery within Africa in the 19th century after abolition is also poorly documented. ARAB SLAVE TRADE Historical documents containing statistics are not always very reliable.
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS -- The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...