Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.
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In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
The name Africa was given to the continent by European explorers, exploiters, slavers and colonists. It ignores the indigenous people and their accomplishments.
New research on Ilorin in Nigeria provides insights into regional socio-political developments prior to the 19th century.
A grand new memorial park walks a fine line - between teaching about slavery and becoming a tourist trap.
Money cowries were used for thousands of years as currency across the Indo-Pacific world but introduced into Atlantic commercial networks relatively late.
The turn towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism in Western democracies makes it unlikely that former Western slave-trading nations will agree to reparations in the near future.
A historian says that critics get the past wrong.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Fellow in Black Heritage, University of Cambridge
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Director of African Studies, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kalamazoo College
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Curator, KwaZulu-Natal Museum
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Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria
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Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College
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Associate Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences