In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

As Suriname celebrates 50 years of independence, the spectre of Dutch colonial rule and its role in the slave trade still lingers. The king and queen of the Netherlands touched down in the small South ...

By Samuel Jekeli Although the legal institution of slavery was abolished long ago, its mentality has not been completely erased from modern workplaces. In many societies today, a troubling attitude ...