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Thanks to the work of a team of young people from Limón, in partnership with the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and ...
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This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual ...
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African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.
who were taken from Africa to be sold in the Americas during the five centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Their story marks an important historical transition, as the North American ...
The ICC Court unveiled plans for a new African office during its conference in Nairobi, while business representatives reiterated the value of arbitration as a tool for cross-border trade. Lawyers and ...
Rothman said in his book “The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.” It was the stench and health concerns — not the inhumanity of the slave trade itself — that ...
and stronger intra-African trade. The call follows recent global trade tensions, notably the United States’ imposition of 10 to 60 per cent tariffs on African exports. At a forum on the theme “Trump ...
Newport Middle Passage Port Marker Project is a grassroots organization that has worked to get a memorial recognizing the city's historical role in the slave trade for nearly a decade. The ...