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

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

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

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The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown ... Canary and Cape Verde Islands to Sierra Leone and returned via the West Indies.

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 we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

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 ...

Britain's Leaders Likely to Face Slavery Reparations Questions at a Summit of Former Colonies WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain's leaders will likely face uncomfortable questions about ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain's leaders will likely face uncomfortable questions about reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade at a summit of nations it once colonized ...