The tronco, meaning “tree trunk” serves as the centerpiece for Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery at the United Nations in New York (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) In 1646, João ...

Luxury cruise liners, like this docked at Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the British Empire - ISTOCK Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as ...

A major exhibition that explores the history of slavery during the Dutch colonial period will travel to the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York this month for a four-week display.

The history we learned in school often painted enslavement as a system people endured passively, waiting for abolition to ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...

2019-06-01T13:59:34-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1a9/20190601140518003_hd.jpgFormer Colonial Williamsburg interpreters talked about bringing African-American ...

When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — A worksheet used in a Pittsford fourth grade class lesson on slavery during colonial times was “highly insensitive in tone” according to Pittsford Central School District ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch king ruled out Thursday using, for now at least, the royal family's "Golden Carriage," one side of which bears a painting that critics say glorifies the Netherlands' ...

A fool and his intellectual capital are soonest parted. As it was in the beginning, so it it is proving to be at this late and probably closing phase of western domination of the universe. As the ...

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