By Kylie Kiunguyu
The Danish government has officially apologized to Ghanaians for their country’s role in the dark history of slave trade in the then Gold Coast where millions of Africans were shipped to Europe and the Americas.
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November 17, 2018
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November 3, 2018
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How slaveholders in the Caribbean maintained control
Christer Petley is professor of history at the University of Southampton in the UK. His latest book is White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (2018).
Freeing a Slave from […]
October 27, 2018
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St Vincent: Reparations Committee calls for renaming of various areas
Aerial view of Victoria Park (File Photo)
(CMC) – The St Vincent and the Grenadines Reparations Committee (SVGRC) is calling on the government to re-name the Victoria Park “with a name more befitting and independence country” as […]
October 27, 2018
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London university calls for £100m slavery reparation
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education and family correspondent
Universities in the UK which benefited in previous centuries from the slave trade should contribute to a £100m fund to support ethnic minority students, says a university leader.
Geoff Thompson, chair of governors of the University of East London, says it would be “ethical and right” for universities to […]
October 23, 2018
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CLEANING UP THE COLONIA MESS: PERSISTENT POVERTY AND SOCIAL DECLINE”
Video clips from the centre for Reparation Research’s seminar which took place on October 19, 2018. It was under the theme “Cleaning Up the Colonial Mess: Persistent Poverty and Social Decline” and was presented by Prof Brian Meeks.
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October 23, 2018
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October 20, 2018
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Shackled Legacy
History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities
STORY: Stephen Smith | Kate Ellis
As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.
Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone.
Profits from slavery and related industries […]
October 20, 2018
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UN Observes International Remembrance of Slave Trade
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots
— Marcus Garvey
Washington, DC, August 23, 2018 — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) announces the launch of a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the […]
October 17, 2018
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Cleaning Up the Colonia Mess: Persistent Poverty and Social Decline”
The Centre for Reparation Research, The university of the West Indies presents a seminar:
Friday, October 19, 2018
10:00am – 12 noon
Dr. Aleem Mohammed Room
Regional Headquarters, the UWI
2A Hermitage Road, Kingston 7
Presenter:
Professor Brian Meeks
October 15, 2018
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Princeton’s case for reparations
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”
― Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told”
When we accept that prestigious […]
October 15, 2018
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Prof. Sean Wilentz speaks about new book on slavery and the Constitution
Professor Sean Wilentz Photo courtesy of the Department of History website.
“There is no other more central or urgent topic in our history than slavery,” University history professor Sean Wilentz stated at a Sept. 28 panel discussion on his […]
October 15, 2018
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What Became of the Taíno?
Taíno leader Francisco “Panchito” Ramírez Rojas offers a prayer to the sea near Baracoa on Cuba’s eastern coast. (Maggie Steber)Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/#wiZIgbmPBiP3ztql.99Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGvFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
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