When we read about the history of slavery in the Americas, it’s often through generalities and numbers: The trans-Atlantic slave trade forcibly took some 12.5 million Africans from their homes, and some […]
Fitness centre operator PureGym has apologised “unreservedly” for an “unacceptable” Facebook post from one of its gyms about slavery. The Luton and Dunstable gym said “slavery was hard and so is this” […]
Lauryn Hill‘s daughter Selah Marley says her mother’s form of discipline was slave like. Selah, daughter of Lauryn, 45, and musician Rohan Marley, 48, claims her mother’s form of discipline involved a belt and lots […]
Arley Gill, Chairman of Grenada’s Reparation Commission, believes that the traditional churches such as the Catholic and Anglican which benefitted from the enslavement of black people need to apologise for the role […]
Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission and Vice-Chancellor ofThe University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles,is laying the blame of the widespread prevalence of chronicnon-communicable diseases in this region […]
400 years ago, in August 1619, the first ship with enslaved Africans destined for the United States arrived in what was then the colony of Virginia. But, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the cruel history […]
Sadiq Khan today called for the removal of all slave trader statues in the capital as he promised to personally ‘review and improve’ the diversity of the capital’s landmarks and Black Lives Matter […]
LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE S1: Welcome to Episode 6 of the History of American Slavery a Slave Academy. I’m Jamelle Bouie, a Slate staff writer. S2: And I’m Rebecca Onion, Slate’s history writer. Today, […]
A wreath-laying ceremony was held on Sunday at the Zong Monument in Black River, St Elizabeth to remember those who lost their lives in the Zong Massacre of 1781. Earlier, a memorial service was […]
With plantation weddings finally falling out of fashion, it’s time to end the lie that holiday cheer and human bondage can coexist. 2019 was the year it finally became socially unacceptable to use a […]
