#transatlanticslavetrade — Public Fediverse posts

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/18/harvard-university-antigua-slavery-history

#Harvard #USHistory #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #ChattelSlavery

The #TransatlanticSlaveTrade is the gravest crime against humanity – why the UN declaration matters

The resolution passed by #UnitedNations General Assembly on 25 March 2026 seeking recognition of the transatlantic slavery as “gravest crime against humanity” potentially creates a broader definition of crimes against humanity in international law and allows for restitution claims against perpetrators.

- https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/03/30/un-declaration-slave-trade-matters

#racism #colonialism #reparations #Ghana #AfricanUnion #USA #UK

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

The histories of #enslavement, #displacement and organised #theft are foundational to the modern world - the #UNdeclaration "calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims"

How utterly disturbing that @EUCommission @Bundesregierung refused to do so... #Europe continuing on its exploitative trajectory, no lessons learned 😭

#history #culpability #reparations #europe #africa #ghana #EU #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UN

https://theconversation.com/the-transatlantic-slave-trade-is-the-gravest-crime-against-humanity-why-the-un-declaration-matters-279218

#UN voted to recognise the #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade as the horror it was

(Guess which sadistic #fascist #racist scumbags had a problem with that. Hint: #ApartheidIsrael, #UnitedStates)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fiPaOejec

https://www.europesays.com/africa/153463/ Ghana Gets Massive Backing at UN for Slave Trade Reparations #ColonialEra #Ghana #JohnMahama #ReparationsForAfricanNations #TransatlanticSlaveTrade #UnitedNationsMembers

"while we often conceive of slavery as confined to Southern states, in reality it was connected to the entire American financial system and helped build fortunes across the country and the world."

Documenting Links Between Financial and Insurance Institutions and Slavery
https://www.hailegal.com/documenting-links-between-financial-and-insurance-institutions-and-slavery/

#America #USA #ChattelSlavery #Slavery #WhiteSupremacy #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade #RacialCapitalism #USCivilWar #CivilWar #Abolition #BlackHistoryMonth

"Slavery may have ended—at least officially—in Massachusetts by 1783, but the ties between Harvard University & slavery continued. Beginning in the colonial period and continuing well into the 19th century, the University & its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery."

Financial Ties: Harvard and the Slavery Economy
https://legacyofslaveryreport.harvard.edu/report/financial-ties-harvard-and-the-slavery-economy

#America #USA #ChattelSlavery #Slavery #WhiteSupremacy #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade #RacialCapitalism #Abolition #BlackHistoryMonth

"These historic systems are often erroneously reduced to a social institution that benefited only a few inhumane families in the Mississippi Valley, and thereby accredited to a small part largely culminating with the the Civil War."

America, the House That Slavery Built
https://psmag.com/news/america-the-house-that-slavery-built/

#America #USA #ChattelSlavery #Slavery #WhiteSupremacy #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade #RacialCapitalism #USCivilWar #CivilWar #Abolition #BlackHistoryMonth

Harvard Gazette: SlaveVoyages finds new home at Harvard. “SlaveVoyages was the result of nearly four decades of scholarly contributions, with researchers from multiple institutions working painstakingly to digitize handwritten records from archives worldwide. Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/harvard-gazette-slavevoyages-finds-new-home-at-harvard/

How the #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade Continues to #Impact #Modern #Life

A new #Smithsonian #book reckons with the enduring #legacies of #slavery and #capitalism

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UnitedStates #History #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Slavery #BlackMastodon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2024/11/07/how-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-continues-to-impact-modern-life/

#Buried: how we choose to remember the #TransatlanticSlaveTrade - #documentary - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/mar/27/buried-how-we-choose-to-remember-the-transatlantic-slave-trade
#StHelena

https://archive.org/details/wearewho

"We Are Who We Say We Are": A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World by Mary Frances Berry

Topics
#antiblackness, #peopleofcolor, #slavetrade, #transatlanticslavetrade, #creole, #creolization, #unitedstatesofamerika, #Haiti, #Cuba, #louisiana, #california, #europe, #racialpassing, #whitepassing, #miscegenation, #colorline, #migration, #emigration, #immigration, #amerikanhistory, #historyoftheamerikas, #genealogy

This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.

https://archive.org/details/forced-migration

Forced Migration: The impact of the export slave trade on African societies by J. E. Inikori; Walter Rodney; Claude Meillassoux; Charles Becker; Victor Martin; J. D. Fage; Peter Morton-Williams; Albert van Danzig; Phyllis Martin; Herbert S. Klein; Edward A. Alpers

Topics
#slavery, #slavetrade, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #Africanslavery, #slaveryinAfrica, #transatlanticslavetrade, #triangletrade, #transSaharanslavetrade, #europeancolonialism, #imperialism, #WestAfrica, #Sahel, #CentralAfrica, #EastAfrica

"There has been much debate over recent years about the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa, with some authorities claiming that there were huge figures involved, and that these set back Africa's development for many years. Other historians reach lower estimates of the figures involved in the Atlantic trade, and hence argue that the effects on the political economy of Africa were more limited. Had widespread slavery existed long before the growth of the European slave trade ? How important was the trans-Saharan traffic ?

https://archive.org/details/skip-ancestors

Ancestors of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia from Africa, West Africa, and Europe by Jane Ailes; Johni Cerny; Oprah Winfrey; D. Brenton Simons; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Topics
#genealogy, #maryland, #virginia, #westvirginia, #Africa, #WestAfrica, #europe, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #Africanamerikanhistory, #Africanamerikangenealogy, #Afroamerikanhistory, #Afroamerikangenealogy, #unitedstatesofamerika, #blackchattelslavery, #transatlanticslavetrade, #HenryLouisGates, #HenryLouisGatesJr., #genetics

Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society

Sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace And Justice

https://streetartutopia.com/2022/04/30/sculpture-dedicated-to-the-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-at-the-entrance-of-the-national-memorial-for-peace-and-justice/