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  1. #BlackHistory Unveiled: From the Continent to the #Diaspora, a podcast by Swedish-Gambian journalist and author Amat Levin. It focuses on the part of world history that has received shockingly little attention.

    - Transatlantic Slave Trade, Part 1: #Portugal's Exploration of #Africa and the Birth of the #SlaveTrade (Nov 15, 2023)
    shows.acast.com/blackhistoryun

    - Transatlantic Slave Trade, Part 2: The Golden Age of the Slave Trade (Nov 28, 2023)
    shows.acast.com/blackhistoryun

    #racism #history #europe #spain

  2. UN Declares Transatlantic Slave Trade a Crime Against Humanity!

    The image clearly shows the disgusting reality of the hypocrisy of the western world.

    This is what IMPERIALISM is. Trying their best to forget, ignore and deny the centuries of crimes against humanity that build their wealth and fortune.

    #UN #UNGA #SlaveTrade #Africa #History #Shameless #Hypocrisy #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #Slavery #Imperialism #Colonialism

  3. Here's the table. #Japan abstained, of course. 😔

    Green = in favour (123)
    Red = against (3)
    Yellow = abstention (52)

    & Black = absent, I suppose? (15) 🤔

    #UNGA #SlaveTrade #CrimeAgainstHumanity

  4. UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:

    “Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”

    news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1

    #AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  5. Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.

    President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.

    presidency.gov.gh/speech-presi

    #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  6. Am Internationalen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer der #Sklaverei und des transatlantischen #Sklavenhandel​s erinnern wir an unser Doppelheft #WerkstattGeschichte 66/67 (2015) »europas sklaven«; im Thementeil, hg. v. Doris Bulach & Juliane Schiel, u.a. Beiträge von Magnus Ressel (@magnusressel) & Karwan Fatah-Black (@kfb):
    ➡️ werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

    @histodons

    #histodons #Slavery #SlaveTrade #Europa

  7. A quotation from Daniel Webster

    At the moment when God in his mercy has blessed the Christian world with a universal peace, there is reason to fear, that, to the disgrace of the Christian name and character, new efforts are making for the extension of this [slave] trade by subjects and citizens of Christian states, in whose hearts there dwell no sentiments of humanity or of justice, and over whom neither the fear of God nor the fear of man exercises a control. In the sight of our law, the African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt.

    Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American statesman, lawyer, orator
    Speech (1820-12-22), “First Settlement of New England,” Plymouth, Massachusetts

    More about this quote: wist.info/webster-daniel/80534…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #danielwebster #abomination #atrocity #Christianity #enslavement #sin #sinner #slavetrade #slavery

  8. CW: Chattel slavery for sugar and rum 🧶

    In 1776, Scotsman Adam "Smith noted that the British West Indian sugar plantations were so profitable they their returns from rum exports, a byproduct of sugar production, paid for the entire overhead expenses of a sugar plantation. As far as Smith was concerned, this was an achievement without parallel in eighteen-century British imperial agriculture."

    (excerpt from Seymour Drescher’s book "The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation")

    #AdamSmith #economics #economy #slavery #chattelSlavery #WestIndies #agriBusiness #agriculture #sugar #Caribbean #lineofColor #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #rum #accumulation #transatlantic #trade #slaveTrade #deportation #economics #BritishEmpire #BritishIsles #Tobago #Jamaica #Barbados

  9. The West African country of Benin is granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people in an effort to attract the Black diaspora, acknowledge its own role in the slave trade, and promote tourism. “By legally recognizing these children of Africa, Benin is healing a historical wound. It is an act of justice, but also one of belonging and hope,” Justice Minister Yvon Détchénou said at a ceremony in the city of Cotonou during which U.S. singer Ciara received her citizenship. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

    flip.it/2g_EtT

    #Benin #Africa #SlaveTrade #USHistory #History #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

  10. Important new report published today from the University of St Andrews: "The University of St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire, 1700-1900" - looks like a really thorough and well researched piece of vital work. Thanks to the researchers. zenodo.org/records/14975043 #slavery #slaveTrade #blackHistory #History #ScottishHistory #colonialism #StAndrewsUniversity #StAndrews #Fife #Scotland

  11. When Brazil’s African Muslims scared the world

    "Taking place 190 years ago, the Malê Revolt in Bahia, led by African Muslim slaves, shook Brazil's foundations and echoed global fears of a new Haiti."
    africasacountry.com/2025/01/wh

    Leia em português aqui: africasacountry.com/2025/01/re

    #Brazil #Africa #SlaveTrade #Portugal #Britain #Yoruba #AIAC

  12. Windermere and its History No One Wants to Discuss

    It was a bit wet this morning in the Lakes, so here is a photograph from yesterday’s walk up Wansfell instead.

    This is, of course, Windermere, England’s largest lake, famed for its picturesque scenery but cursed with a history no postcard could capture. And I don’t mean the recent sewage discharge debacle. A favourite with tourists, t ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36855

    #LakeDistrict #Windermere #18thcentury #history #SlaveTrade