A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

Slavery is at the core of the glaring inequality which persists in South Africa to this day. Yet slavery is but a subscript ...

A South African photojournalist has taken an interesting trip down history lane by visting South African towns with Dutch ...

These justifications deflected responsibility for slavery onto African tribal incivilities, anointed the United Kingdom and ...

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Dozens of former British colonies are challenging their old colonial rulers to make amends for slavery and other injustices suffered under the British Empire. The idea of reparations was floated at ...

For the leaders of former colonies, however, this side-step will not likely put the topic to rest anytime soon Privately, some families who owned thousands of slaves have apologised for their part ...

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Alex Renton, co-founder of Heirs of Slavery, blasted Robert Jenrick's claim that former colonies should be grateful to Britain as a "horrific insult" Jamaican citizens call for slavery reparations ...

Barbados became Britain’s first slave society in 1661 and the first colony to have a “slave code” which enshrined in law that African people would be treated as chattel property and not ...

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ...