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The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the transatlantic slave trade.
Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haiti’s first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897’ reveals some of the surprising truths of her research.
Collards may have arrived in southern Morocco via early Muslim traders, and Morocco may have been a stop in the journey the vegetables took to America.
New research on Ilorin in Nigeria provides insights into regional socio-political developments prior to the 19th century.
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
Many Catholic schools in Britain retain the name John Henry Newman, despite his opposition to abolishing slavery.
Some UK families whose wealth largely derives from the transatlantic slave trade have agreed to pay reparations.
Britain’s industrial revolution was built on slavery: both black labour and intellectual property.
There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what historians know about slavery during those eras is horrific.
Africans should get more credit for the abolition of the slave trade.
Canadians should learn the lessons of the U.S. and the U.K. to avoid idealizing a republic with a powerful president and at the same time acknowledge that a constitutional monarchy is no alternative.
The voices and actions of women who were enslaved reveal how oppression works and what made a difference to those exposed to it
In the face of violent crime, both real and imagined, too many U.S. police forces adhere to racist philosophies about rooting out ‘internal enemies’ as they did hundreds of years ago.
John Chilembwe features on Malawi’s banknotes and is remembered in a public holiday every year. But he is little-known elsewhere.
It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
Studying local Africans’ contributions to the abolition of slavery provides a fuller understanding of its history.
The Haitian revolution was the first by a former slave colony and was to inspire other emancipation movements across the New World.
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Geography, University of New Mexico
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Professor of Contemporary Slavery, University of Hull
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Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, University of Basel
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Lecturer in Portuguese Studies, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor, University of Bradford
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Reader in Economics, University of Westminster
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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex
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Professor of History, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer (Development Economics/Project Appraisal), University of Bradford
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Reader in Historical Geography, UCL
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Professor of Latin American History, University of Leeds