Tag: slavery
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Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/african-leaders-push-for-recognition-of-colonial-crimes-and-reparations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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Harvard’s motto, Veritas, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, demands of us truth. https://legacyofslaveryreport.harvard.edu/ more ›
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When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was… more ›
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Brazilian prosecutors have launched a civil investigation into one of the country’s largest banks’ historical links to slavery, in an unprecedented move to hold Brazilian institutions to account for their… more ›
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All over North America and Europe, universities, businesses and other organisations are investigating their historical connections to slavery. Some of these institutions once owned plantations or enslaved people. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/31/more-than-money-the-logic-of-slavery-reparations more ›
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The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice. The Scott Trust… more ›
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The National Bank of Haiti, on which so many hopes were pinned that night, was national in name only. Far from an instrument of Haiti’s salvation, the central bank was,… more ›
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Violence. Tragedy. Hunger. Underdevelopment. These bywords have clung to Haiti for more than a century. Kidnappings. Outbreaks. Earthquakes. The president assassinated — this time in his bedroom. How is it… more ›