Tag: slave
Research into the role of Amersfoort city council in the international slave trade
An exploratory study into additional research that was carried out together with the municipality of Amsterdam has not yielded any concrete research questions, the municipality of Utrecht reports in a…
Canada’s Trudeau hints that China uses slave labor to produce lithium
According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, battery metals produced in Canada are expensive because they are produced in an ethically sustainable way. Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau suggests that…
The ‘slavery’ apology from the British Guardian newspaper!
The Scott Foundation, owner of the British Guardian newspaper, apologized for the newspaper’s founders’ links to overseas slavery and announced it would invest in a 10-year “restorative justice” program. The…
Bernardine Evaristo, neither master nor slave
Bernardine Evaristo was born in Great Britain to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Militant, activist, playwright, she co-founded the Théâtre des Femmes Noires in 1982 and created the…
Literature: “There is no rainbow in paradise”, the slave trade in a griot language
/ Podcasts / In person(s) In this book, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry explores the past and present of Chad, his native country. Slave trade, colonization, world conflicts and coups d’etat which…
Criticism of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar – “Bribery and slave labor”
There are probably very few people who have missed criticism of the football World Cup 2022. There is a lot to have opinions. Not least how Qatar was chosen as…
Dutch Central Bank apologizes for history of slavery
Dutch Central Bank (DNB) Governor Klaas Knot has apologized for the bank’s role in its history of slavery. The bank has announced that it will provide financial support for conflicts…
Hear Aimé Césaire for the National Day of Memories of the Slave Trade and Slavery
First poem by Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a return to the native country recounts the French West Indies before the decline of the colonial empire, in 1939. A text marked…
Council quartet wants $71K to help preserve London’s fugitive slave chapel
News Local News Four London city councilors are asking city hall for one-time funding to help move a piece of the region’s Black history to a permanent spot at Fanshawe…
Searching for the names of his slave ancestors
Allowing French descendants of slaves to discover the origin of their surname is one of the objectives of the Comité marche du 23 mai 1998 (CM98), a West Indian memorial…