Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

Some implications of the abolition of the slave trade / Stanley L. Engerman -- The ideology of antislavery / Howard Temperley -- Religion and British slave emancipation / Roger T. Anstey -- The public ...

On March 25, “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” an overwhelming majority of the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt U.N.

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was known as "white gold" because of how valuable it was. By the 17th century, ...

We abstained from that resolution because we refuse to create a hierarchy among crimes against humanity or to make a competition of the suffering,' says Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot | Anadolu ...

African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis -- Background to annexation : Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891 / David ...

In the second part of the series, we established that the widely repeated claim that Europeans remained confined to the African coast and relied entirely on Africans to capture enslaved people does ...

Identifying the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity situates its history within international law ...

In a historic vote on March 25th – the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave ...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be ...

The story of the transatlantic slave trade is often told in ways that feel deceptively simple—reduced to slogans, moral shortcuts, and phrases like “they sold us.” But history rarely conforms to such ...