The liberating power of vodou
Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore
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The left case against slavery reparations
Black Britain should not be chained to the scars of the past.
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Should Britain pay slavery reparations?
Laura Trevelyan and Clive Lewis represent “two sides of a horrible shared history” in Heirs of Enslavement.
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Will the solar industry cut its ties to modern slavery?
Parts of solar panels are being produced by the forced labour of Uyghurs. The EU and the US are working…
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How the slave trade funded Britain
A new book argues that people-trafficking was once “an essential part of British national life”.
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Libya’s slave markets are a reminder that the exploitation of Africans never went away
Slavery was recorded in 20th century Ethiopia and continues to exist in Mauritania today.
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David Olusoga’s look at a forgotten history shows there’s always been black in the Union Jack
Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography.
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Much of Britain’s wealth is built on slavery. So why shouldn’t it pay reparations?
The benefits of slavery have accrued down the generations, so why are we so nervous about the responsibility for the…
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12 Years A Slave asks us the most important question . . . why?
Slavery was cholera in water, it infected everyone; a daily routine, spiteful, petty and perverse, its many perpetrators faceless and…
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