Sugar has deep links with slavery in the US, but Black workers weren’t the only ones affected. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled cutting and processing cane.
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King saw parallels between the anti-colonial movement in Africa and the civil rights struggle in the US.
Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.
The west has long defined racism as a function of colonial domination and discrimination. But in a changing world this definition must be challenged.
The lionization of Rittenhouse by the right proves that even skin colour is not enough to protect white people who support anti-racism movements.
Myths of Canada’s moral superiority in contrast to the United States can be a barrier to acknowledging and addressing racism in Canada.
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Black British women have been staging plays in recent years about Britain’s role in slavery, a history the country is too eager to forget.
The lie of the land: Britain’s hidden legacies of slavery in Eugene Palmer’s paintings.
Rather than being an act of censorship, The Rolling Stone’s decision to remove Brown Sugar from their set list is a show of artistic freedom.
Escaping slavery did not result in unconditional freedom.
The book reveals an insidious, unthinking form of racial hierarchy.
Movements that challenge former national icons demonstrate the importance of history-making in an age of racial reconciliation. But ‘history wars’ won’t get us anywhere.
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic slave trade across state lines. Hundreds of thousands more were bought and sold within states.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
Rebalancing labor relations so that workers are empowered would be an effective way to address racial wealth disparities and atone for the legacy of slavery, a scholar argues.
It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
Black Americans’ contributions to some of the country’s most iconic dishes and spirits are finally starting to be recognized in the media and in museum exhibitions.
There are major obstacles in confronting the social movement for reparations for the slave trade. Such reparations are a moral imperative, but politically, successfully obtaining them will be hard.
If you thought slavery in the US was confined to southern states, think again.
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