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US Grammy winner Ciara becomes citizen of Benin under new slavery descendants law
In an Instagram post the Grammy award-winner said she was "honoured", adding "thank you Benin for opening your arms and your heart to me". The citizenship scheme is part of an initiative by the small West African country to build ties with the African diaspora and boost cultural tourism.
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were ...
The Atlantic slave trade started with the Portuguese bringing the first captives from Africa to Brazil in 1526 and continued into the 19th centuries, with estimates putting the number shipped across ...
Even before the publication in 1969 of Philip Curtin’s seminal book, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, historians and others have been engaged in debates and analyses of the effects of the ...
A researcher has discovered the identity of the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Redoshi, later given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the ...
Author Richard Reddie writes about the Atlantic slave trade, how the Bible was used by Christians on both sides of the issue and the abolitionists who sought to bring it to an end.
It had nothing to do with the Atlantic slave trade, but with colonial rule. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi agreed to reparations with President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
Lancaster Guardian on MSN6d
Poignant piece of Lancaster's slave trade history restoredA memorial to enslaved Africans transported on Lancaster-owned ships as part of the Transatlantic slave trade has been ...
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