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For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...
Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A ...
As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...
I n our everyday lives, we invoke the metaphors of slavery. For example, if you feel you are being exploited you might say, "I am being treated like a slave." Yet few people actually know about ...