Browsing: Slavery

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it remains a stubborn myth that the North of the US was not involved in slavery. The prevailing narrative is…

This is the story of the legendary Queen Nanny of the Maroons. An African woman born in present-day Ghana, kidnapped and sold into slavery in Jamaica,…

Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman was nicknamed “Moses” because she led enslaved people to freedom. One hundred seventy-three years ago, in December 1850, Harriet orchestrated and…

In 1865, the United States formally abolished slavery through a constitutional amendment—but with a significant exception: Forced labour could still be used as punishment for a…

This clip is a reminder of what our brothers and sisters in the US are still up against. In it, alt-right leader Richard Spencer claims that…

In 1988, renowned Nigerian poet and novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) reflected on the literature he studied at university. Upon reading these works closely, Achebe realised that…

Profits from the enslavement of Africans laid the foundation for Britain’s industrial revolution and global empire. Yet calls for reparations remain unanswered – with the monarchy…

According to the UK’s newly-elected opposition leader, we should be grateful that Britain ended slavery – and should stop moaning about the past. Remarkably, Kemi Badenoch…

The portrayal of Scots as abolitionists and liberal champions hides a long history of Scottish profiting from the enslavement of Africans. The wealth accumulated from the…

“I’m grateful that we were finally rescued, but the scars of that time are still with me,” is a harrowing sentiment from one of the Ghanaian…