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AFA copy 39088019024447 gift from Janet Stanley. 1. Potential laborers or "troublesome savages"? : settlement of liberated Africans in the Bahamas -- 2. "Binding them to the trade of digging cane ...
THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...
The small west African nation of Benin last year enacted a law granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people to acknowledge the country’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, and ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The ...