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Key West Citizen1d
Key West’s ‘Spirits of the Passage’ exhibit documents maritime slave trade
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
Southeast Express1d
A White Slave Trader Married African Royalty and Operated This Controversial Florida Plantation in the 1800s
Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...
The Miami Times2d
Descendants of slave owners, enslaved people in Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
AllAfrica on MSN2d
Slave Trade - Gorée Island and the 'Fragility of Freedom'
Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...
Descendants of slave owners in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same ...
Descendants of slaves, owners call for reparations at the UN
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...