On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Arts of Benin, Jean-Michel Abimbola, launched events in Ouidah at the House of Brazil. These events mark the celebration of the ...

Part 1. The Danish slave trade -- Volume and composition of the slave trade and the trade cargoes -- Transatlantic slave trade shipping -- Slave trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia -- Part 2.

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

NEW YORK-- New York City is joining communities around the world in recognizing International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Several municipal buildings, including City ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...

2023 JUN 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily-- Investigators discuss new findings in Politics and Government. According to news reporting from New York ...

When the United Kingdom abolished slavery in 1833, the government of the day paid out £20m in compensation -- not to slaves, but to their owners. What happened next to that money has been tracked by a ...

(adds comment, details) By Orla Ryan ELMINA, Ghana, March 25 (Reuters) - Africans voiced their anger at a ceremony in Ghana to mark 200 years since Britain abolished the slave trade on Sunday, with ...