African slave trade
Origins of enslaved Africans freed by British, then abandoned on remote Atlantic island revealed by DNA analysis
A study reveals the likely origins of 27,000 Africans left on the island of St. Helena as part of Britain’s attempt to eliminate the transatlantic slave trade
Stories of slaves rewritten with DNA research
In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. And when he died in middle age, he was buried alongside 35 other slaves.
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New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery
The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC, used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers.
Slave trader's statue torn down in UK amid global inequality protests
A statue to a 17th century British slave trader was torn down on June 7 during an anti-racism protest in Bristol in southwest England amid calls for other historic reminders of the slave trade to be removed.
Europe-Africa summit aims for evacuation of migrants risking abuse
Leaders at an EU-Africa summit called Nov. 30 for the immediate evacuation of nearly 4,000 distressed African migrants in Libya under a new drive to fight slave traders and traffickers.
INTERVIEW: George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
The subject of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, and the use of eunuchs among the imperial elite in Istanbul, is an exotic but surprisingly little known subject.
US cathedral may become museum to the slave trade
A plan to open what would be the only museum in the U.S. centered on the trans-Atlantic slave trade would focus on the Episcopal Church's role in its history and the sometimes-buried legacy of slavery in northern states.
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African slaves in the Ottoman Empire
âA class of human beings that has formed an integral part of Muslim society up to the present day is that of the slaves. [the Prophet] Muhammad took over the slavery system, upon which ancient society was based, seemingly without question and regarding it as part of the natural order of the universe.
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