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6 giorni fa · As many as two–thirds of the enslaved people in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1789 had been born in Africa, but by that time a significant number of Africans or children of Africans had become free. Here Moreau de Saint–Méry details the origins of this pivotal group. Saint Domingue: The Freedmen, 1789, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
27 mag 2024 · Today we take a lighthearted route through the painful history of slavery but with a focus on slavery among Africans in West Africa. This is the beginning of a mini-series to explore slavery throughout the continent up until the present day.
2 giorni fa · At least 69,000 Kenyans were subjected to modern slavery between 2016 and 2023, a new survey by the Global Slavery Index has revealed. The report released yesterday in Kilifi indicates that 269,000 Kenyans were also subjected to forced labour and marriage, ranking Kenya 88th globally in terms of the prevalence of modern slavery. Speaking at ...
1 giorno fa · t. e. The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
30 mag 2024 · Slavery in the Americas as Inspiration and Ideological Precursor for German Colonialism Part of the research deals with a group of travelers who became quite crucial for the colonial German Empire. Carl Peters (1856-1918), a German politician and publicist, serves as an example here.
20 mag 2024 · If anyone should be paying slavery reparations, it’s West Africa. The Dean of Chapel in Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev Michael Banner, has computed that Britain owes more than £200 billion to Caribbean nations as reparations for slavery. Banner is not a historian nor an accountant but a clergyman and his calculations, both mathematical ...
3 giorni fa · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
