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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 ...
Virginia slave narratives : a folk history of slavery in Virginia from interviews with former slaves
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The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...
In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...
A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...
When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis.
The largest portion of the cargo consists of cases or boxes, 2 feet square, from 2 feet to 3 ½ and some 4 or 5 feet long. They are generally iron bound. They are handled by the loaders as if they were ...
The euro zone is set to continue its eastward expansion after Bulgaria was deemed ready to become the currency bloc’s 21st member. The European Commission recommended on Wednesday that the Black ...
Not only that, but the patterned midi dress is so comfortable that it's like wearing a tracksuit. Peacocks shared an ad on their TikTok page showing the woman trying on a range of their new summer ...
A woman has died after a tree unexpectedly fell in the Company’s Garden in Cape Town during the 13th annual Slave Route Challenge. She was one of 8,000 participants in the race, which pays tribute to ...
CAPE TOWN - In a tragic turn of events, a woman competing in Cape Town’s annual Slave Route Challenge has died after a tree fell on her during the race. The runner was among 8,000 other ...
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