The television dramas have not exaggerated the horrors of the slave trade. The reality was often even worse for Africans taken from their homes.
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The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
Ending slavery didn’t mean that the rights of Britain’s colonial peoples were properly protected. Far from it.
An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.
The slave trade was used to fund American universities. Scholars are looking to recover the lost stories of the enslaved humans who built some of America’s oldest institutions.
Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.
For over 500 years, the drug has been associated with racism and poverty.
The Portuguese slave ship São José, which sank off Cape Town, was one of many vessels that either rounded the Cape or pulled into Table Bay for refreshment during the Transatlantic slave trade.
At the root of today’s racial troubles on campuses is the past, when most American universities were intimately connected to slave trade and slavery. Harvard, Princeton, Brown were no exception.
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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