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From chains to bonds the slave trade revisited edited by Doudou Diène

A collection of 38 papers from the Ouidah Conference held in September 1994 in Ouidah, Benin as the launching conference for UNESCO's international Slave Route Project Foreword / Nicephore Soglo -- ...
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...
The Root

Were There ‘Mulatto’ Slave Traders?

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
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The slave-trader's letter-book : Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and other tales of the African slave trade / Jim Jordan

Introduction : the journey of the slave-trader's letter-book -- The last laugh : December 2, 1858 -- "You are a noble boy" : June 1838 -- "Young as you are, you are ...
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British protesters dismount statue of slave trader, toss it into harbor

LONDON -- For someone who died nearly three centuries ago, Edward Colston has become a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain. The toppling of his statue in Bristol, a city in the ...