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Slave trade and abolition to be remembered

The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...
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Calls for reparations for Britain’s slave trade are rooted in dark legacy

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A debate about reparations for ...
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PolitiFact: Did Democrats want to expand slavery pre-Civil War, while Republicans opposed it?

Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley failed to use the word “slavery” when discussing the cause of the Civil War and the fallout from the misstep had lots of politicos talking about it. That ...
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Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...
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Calls for reparations for Britain’s slave trade are rooted in dark legacy

LONDON (AP) — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies. Britain ...