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Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...
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Slave Trade: Gorée Island and the ‘Fragility of Freedom’
Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...
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Initiative to Digitize Records of Slave Trade Will Move to Harvard
A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...
Haunting slave ships found off coast of national park 300 years later: 'Very convincing'
Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...
AllAfrica.com11d
Senegal: Slave Trade - Gorée Island and the 'Fragility of Freedom'
Dakar, Senegal — Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and ...
Danish slave ships wreckage found off coast of Costa Rica, museum confirms
Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...
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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 says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
Türk noted a European Union statement in 2023 profoundly regretting the “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the ...